[Sca-cooks] Squirrel recipes

[Daniel Myers]

On Feb 17, 2004, at 9:39 AM, Mathilde Poussin wrote:

> Hi,
> I don't think I've ever posted on that list but I was wondering if 
> people know of period recipes for squirrels.
> Or is that as usual in Stefan's Florilegium? ;)

There don't seem to be any mentions of squirrels in "Forme of Cury", 
"Liber cure cocorum", "A Proper newe Booke of Cokerye", or "Two 
Fifteenth-Century Cookery-Books".

However, from Le Menagier de Paris (Janet Hinson, trans.) we get:
	"Squirrels are singed, gutted, trussed like rabbits, roasted or put in 
pastry:
	eat with cameline sauce or in pastry with wild duck sauce."


- Doc (singing "... and maybe we'll do in a squirrel or two ...")

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