[Sca-cooks] horsemeat

[Daniel Myers]

Sounds plausible for me, especially when I haven't come across any
recipes for horse meat in that same time period.  That's the big
problem with household accounts - it's not always clear *why* they
bought the items listed.


On Monday, December 16, 2002, at 12:45 AM, Patricia Collum wrote:

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