[Sca-cooks] Burt Wolf venting

[Pixel, Goddess and Queen]

On Thu, 10 Oct 2002 jenne at fiedlerfamily.net wrote:

> > 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.
>

Galen, I think. Gelded meat, or, rather, meat from a gelded animal (pig,
sheep, cow, chicken) is supposed to be optimal in a humoral sense.

Margaret