[Sca-cooks] horsemeat

[Patricia Collum]

It is a foxhunting tradition to feed horses who can no longer hunt to the
hounds, it is there normal food, so this could also be for animal food.

Cecily
----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel Myers" <doc at medievalcookery.com>
To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Sunday, December 15, 2002 7:26 PM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] horsemeat


>
> 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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