SC - Culinary uses for horns

[Daniel Phelps]

Was written:

>I believe UlfR asked if I had ever used a horn for any other kitchen
>purpose, and the short answer is no, I haven't. On the other hand, a
>horn funnel (essentially a cow's horn cut off, cleaned out, and
>truncated at the pointed end) used to be the traditional tool used for
>force-feeding foie gras geese in France until fairly recently, and I
>wouldn't be at all surpirsed to see farmers doing things like stuffing
>sausages with them.


My response:

If you will pardon the digression from things directly culinary, in the
murder of Edward II there is documentation of the use a horn funnel to
stuff, albeit rather horrifically.

Daniel Raoul

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