[Sca-cooks] Burt Wolf venting

[jenne at fiedlerfamily.net]

> I wonder if it's possible he's referring to gelded steers. After a
> not-very-deep study of this, I STR seeing references to beef coming
> from bulls and bullocks, and occasionally from cows, heifers, and
> oxen, but I don't believe I've run across any references to steers in
> period, or even until the eighteenth or nineteenth centuries. Unless
> anybody else has some specifics on this...

I was just reading something (Galen? Hildegarde?) about why one gelds
oxen, etc. and something about meat. Now, I'm going to have to go find it.

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