[Sca-cooks] horsemeat

[Daniel Myers]

On Sunday, December 15, 2002, at 05:29 PM, Stefan li Rous wrote:
>
> Yes, the French do currently eat horsemeat. But did they in medieval
> times? If you can give some referances that they did this, not
> necessarily recipes, I'd like to get it. Perhaps they were only eaten
> by the lower classes, because the meat was tougher or because of taste,
> but I'd like to see the referances.Conversely if someone sees period
> European writings that say that horsemeat should not be eaten
> because...,
> I'd like to get referances for that.

How's this?

"Household Accounts and Disbursements of Robert Dudley, Earl of
Leicester, 1558-1561, 1584-1586"
[Simon Adams, 1995.  ISBN 0-521-55156-0]

There are numerous entries like the following:

Item to Holland for horsemeat in Seint Johnes Streat }  xviijd.
Item to Forest for his charges of horsemeat & his owne your lordship
being at Christ Church }  xijd.
Item to Currson for meat of a tyrd horse going to Horselye }  ijs.

Then again, the following lines make me wonder if at least some of the
references to "horsemeat" are meant to mean "food for the horses".

Item to the boy for spaniells meat }  ijs.
Item for meat for the spaniells }  iijs.


There are also a great number of references to urinals, but that's a
whole 'nother topic.

- Doc


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