[Sca-cooks] Re: pantry foods

[Philip & Susan Troy]

johnna holloway wrote:


> ------------------------------------------
> If I recall correctly the cow went down (she fell or stepped in a
> hole and wasn't walking) and couldn't be saved
> or sold, so they butchered her. I would guess that it was a matter
> of cost and that grinding for hamburger was a cheap way to go...
> and that the quality of the roasts and steaks would have been
> sub-par anyway. It was one of the original left-over dairy cows
> after we quit milking. (She was not one of the ones that was cross-bred
> with the angus bulls.) It's been probably almost 40 years ago and
> there's
> no one to ask that might remember.


Could it have been the effect of adrenalin on the meat, if the animal was agitated and injured while slaughter took place? I understand that this type of thing can lead to meat that is both tough and gamy.

Grinding may have been determined to be a necessity.

Adamantius

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