[Sca-cooks] horsemeat

[Stefan li Rous]

Edouard Halidai replied to me with:
> 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:
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Thank you!
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