SC - Culinary uses for horns

[Philip & Susan Troy]

Daniel Phelps wrote:
> 
> 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

Ah, yes, lending whole new meaning to telling the King to get stuffed...
I hadn't realized a horn was involved, just an unspecified tube big
enough to hold a... well, you know...

However, to get back on track a bit, it suggests that either the use of
a horn as a funnel and, um, opening-widener was well-known, or that they
had such a horn lying around for multiple purposes, including the rather
peculiar one to which it was finally put in the case of Edward II.

Adamantius
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Phil & Susan Troy

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