[Sca-cooks] Re: pantry foods

[Dunbar, Debra]

A few years back, a neighbor had a downed dairy cow (broke her leg in a
fall) and offered to split the meat with us.  The few steaks and roasts we
didn't have ground up were tough, tough, tough and promptly chopped to make
BBQ and chilli.
Wrynne

> 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.
>
> Johnna Holloway  Johnnae llyn Lewis
>