[Sca-cooks] Marrow - thanks

[Philip & Susan Troy]

johnna holloway wrote:

> Which is why also that one can be offered a "sweet" or a "pudding"
> as the end to the meal as well as the traditional port and cheese.
> Wasn't bone marrow from large bones a luxury item akin to caviar now?
> It was eaten with those special little silver spoons.
> Johnna Holloway  Johnnae llyn Lewis


Alternately, the little spoon may simply be an easy method of getting at the marrow of a sawn length of say, shank-bone (think osso-bucco).


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