[Sca-cooks] Food Origins

[Siegfried Heydrich]

    Why would it cost a lot? Just get one of the hunters in your group to go
out and bring one home . . .just like in period! Assuming, of course, that
you're in an area where they're found . . .
    And if you REALLY want to do it up right, be there for the butchering,
and pull the various organs for freezing. As I recall, after the hunt, there
was a huge ceremony where the different parts were presented to feast
attendees, with much pomp. There were very strict rules about who got what
based on precedence and whatnot. I remember reading several of them in
various Chansons. Now, THAT would make for a truly memorable feast.
    One of the side benefits of this, I might add, would be a very large
(and hopefully not shot full of too many holes) Elk hide. You simply can't
believe what it's like to lay down on one . . .

    Sieggy

-----Original Message-----


>Didn't we just discuss moose and elk fairly recently?
>
>IIRC (having just skimmed a very long and silly thread on the subject in
>the November archives) our moose and elk started out as Alces alces and
>Cervus elaphus and could still probably interbreed with their Old World
>relations, but are now considered different subspieces, to wit,
>Alces alces americana and Cervus elaphus canadiensis. Over there, what
>we call moose are called elk, and what we call elk are called red deer,
>and what we call whitetail are New World.
>
>So if I really felt like spending huge amounts of money for 12th Night, I
>could serve a roasted elk and it would be a reasonable facsimile of a
>period meat.
>
>Oh, yeah, I'm doing our Barony's 12th Night feast, and it's all
>Adamantius's fault.
>
>Margaret
>
>On Wed, 22 May 2002, Philippa Alderton wrote:
>
>> Keep in mind that venison/deer meat depends on the
>> species, but the species are rather similar from New
>> World to Old World. We have here, for example, White
>> Tail, Mule Deer, Moose, Antelope, Key Deer among
>> others, and our White Tail are very similar to the
>> European species, but our Moose and Elk are very
>> different.
>>
>> Also, depending when/where you're reading and
>> studying, venison has meant any wild meat, not just
>> deer or deer-like species.
>>
>> Phlip