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

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Jellied moose nose is still scary. Jellied anything from a ruminant is
scary to me--I was traumatized early in life by jellied calve's feet.

The red deer is Cervus elaphus. According to everything I've read, they
are, or at least were, the same as the N. American elk, which is usually
referred to as 'wapiti' to differentiate.

So you could substitute wapiti for a more period meat than venison, since
the whitetail deer (Odocoileus virginianus) isn't native to Europe. The
fallow deer is Dama dama, the roe deer is Capreolus capreolus. There are
red deer farms in this country, some of which may do mail order.

The concept of an elk on a spit is only slightly less scary than an entire
moose on a spit.

Margaret


On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, Decker, Terry D. wrote:

> The original range extended quite a bit further East than Scandinavia and
> Northern Europe into Asia.  Alces alces is the Eurasian species and it was
> period game.  Alces americana in the North American moose.
>
> Rather than "deer," the European term is "elk."  In the New World, "elk"
> became associated with the wapiti (Cervus canadensis).
>
> Rather "jellied moose nose," think "elk delicacies in aspic."
>
> Bear
>
> > Moose are native to Northern Europe and Scandanavia as well,
> > and probably
> > could be considered period game (although they may have just
> > called them
> > "deer"). Jellied moose nose is probably not period, though. ;-)
> >
> > Margaret, who is really bored this morning and thus looking up mooses