[Sca-cooks] Tips on Redactions

[Cindy M. Renfrow]

The bears were not caged, they, and many of the other critters, were driven
into nets or enclosures made of cloth & ropes to make it easier to kill
them. It was not an arena, or show put on for amusement, although some of
the participants, especially the well-dressed ones, may have been hunting
because it was a noble art. But the primary function was to provide meat.

Cindy

>My take on the pictures is that the hunting was for pleasure, not for food.
>Most notably, the bears were caged, and in much larger numbers than would be
>found in the wild.  Since bears are solitary animals, they would have been
>captured in advance, and released into the cage (arena?) for sport killing.
>If the pictures are accurate, the number of stags would also indicate that
>the animals were captured in advance, and released into a confined area.
>Undoubtedly, the animals would have been used for food, but the actual
>killing was for sport.
>
>Eleanor
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Cindy M. Renfrow" <cindy at thousandeggs.com>
>To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
>Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 8:25 AM
>Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Tips on Redactions
>
>
>snip from Cariadoc
>>
>> Yet Gervase Markham includes a recipe, 'To recover venison that is
>> tainted', (Best, p. 103), and there are plenty of recipes in other sources
>> for hiding spoilage in wine & etc.  May,in the Accomplisht Cook, gives 3
>> recipes to preserve tainted venison. But these methods don't involve
>> spices, rather they call for pickling, or ale, vinegar & herbs, etc.
>>  Since venison was a game meat, it couldn't be slaughtered the day of, it
>> had to be taken one or more days before the dinner. The pictures I've
>> posted from the Jagdbuch http://www.thousandeggs.com/jagdbuch.html  show
>> mass-slaughter of game animals 20 to 50 at a time, & then having to haul
>> them back to town, many miles away.
>>
>> Alas! no time now for more. I have to finish packing for the conference.
>>
>> Cindy Renfrow
>>
>>
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