Mooses [was Re: [Sca-cooks] Regretable foods.... OOP]

[johnna holloway]

I just checked Alan Davidson and apparently the Europeans
lump the Moose into the Elk family. And Elk were found in
Europe... so maybe they had elk (smaller than a moose) in
Europe. I shall have to check some other sources. Perhaps
one only has to roast something the size of an elk???

Johnnae llyn Lewis  Johnna Holloway

Philip & Susan Troy wrote: snipped .....................
> > [OB food content: So if moose is a native European species, we could serve
> > moose at a feast. Imagine spit-roasting an entire moose...]>
> If they had not become extinct in Europe in period. Actually, I STR they
> existed in Ireland at some point; they would probably do that potboiler
> thing with the hot rocks. On the other hand, their presence as a known
> concept might not indicate that they were there and could be eaten. For
> example, the Sutton Hoo Ship Burial has some drinking horns taken from
> the aurochs, which is believed to have been extinct (and may have been)
> by the approximate time of the burial (7th-8th C. C.E.?)
> BTW, there's a wonderful encounter with an aurochs in Lindsey Davis'
> "The Iron Hand of Mars", still my favorite of the Didius Falco novels...
> Adamantius