[Sca-cooks] Christmas Carp Tradition

[Stefan li Rous]

Ysabeau of Prague mentioned:
> I just saw this in the International Tribune...
> http://www.iht.com/articles/2004/12/22/news/carp.html
>
> I never would have thought of fish farming in the middle ages.
Interesting. I have seen a number of mentions of medieval farming of 
fresh water fish. Apparently it was fairly common to keep eels in mill 
ponds. This is the first time I've heard of carp being used, or of 
special ponds being built. Perhaps that was more of an eastern Europe 
thing and it really hasn't been until this last decade that material on 
this area in medieval times has started to appear in English.

There is a bit more about medieval fish farming in this Florilegium 
file:
fishing-msg       (21K)  7/ 9/02    Medieval fishing. Fish ponds.
http://www.florilegium.org/files/ANIMALS/fishing-msg.html

There is also this file, although it is on catching rather than 
farming, freshwater fish:
Angling-art       (24K)  8/24/01    "A Historic Look at the Sport of 
Angling" by
                                        Creador TwineDragon. Pennsic 26 
class.
http://www.florilegium.org/files/ANIMALS/Angling-art/Angling-art.html

Here is a similar file, but less on fishing and more on eating what you 
catch:
Complet-Anglr-msg (14K)  5/26/00    Recipes from "Compleat Angler", 
1653.
http://www.florilegium.org/files/FOOD/Complet-Anglr-msg.html

Stefan
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