[Sca-cooks] Re: Horsemeat

[Stefan li Rous]

Nathan Adelaar replied to me with:
> Stefan li Rous  said:
>> I guess I wasn't very clear on this point. I know that horsemeat is
>> likely to be a leaner meat. When talking about being tougher, I was
>> really thinking about horsemeat that might have been eaten by the
>> non-nobles.
>
> So why not put the tough meat into sausages or other forcemeat
> preparations?

I hadn't thought of that. But yes, if someone has some evidence of
horsemeat being used in sausages or other forcement in medieval Europe,
I'd love to see it.


> My mom loved telling stories about her experiences as a young girl in
> the Holocaust in Holland.  One of her favorites involved a butcher her
> family frequented, who started selling sausages containing horsemeat as
> other meats became scarce.  Often a horsemeat sausage sold for only a
> fraction of the cost of a more traditional meat sausage, and admixtures
> of horse and traditional meats appeared.

This statement implies though that folks in Holland were NOT eating
horsemeat before they were forced to by unusual circumstances. Hardly
evidence that modern Europeans regularly ate horsemeat, much less that
medieval Europeans did.

An interesting story, though. And a cautionary tale on taking

advertisements at face value.


Stefan

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