[Sca-cooks] SCA Slaughtering

[jenne at fiedlerfamily.net]

>Urban
>households probably even bought the small animals already killed and
>dressed.

We do know that slaughtering and butchering in urban areas was done by
specialists (at least for large animals). For example, take a look at the
information on meat bones in _Feeding a City: York_.

>  I've seen documentation on this list for regulations regarding butcher
>shops, so there is little doubt that they've existed from antiquity. And
>their customer base would have to be people who could afford to buy meat,
>not peasants.

_Feeding a City_ suggests that some home butchering was done by smaller
urban households but that it was actively discouraged by the civil
authorities.

-- Jadwiga Zajaczkowa   jenne at fiedlerfamily.net
"The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken
places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and
the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these
you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry."
-- E. Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms