[Sca-cooks] a worrisome quote from Le Menagier

[vicki shaw]

Well. Milady Margali did suggest something of interest which could make the
writer's comment more than a mere FYI;

"well, a lot of modern cookbooks incude tips on chosing meat or produce,
maybe he was indicating that certain shady viandiers werent above
sliding in either cat or old bunny instead of a nice tender young one=)"

So one could say the author slipped in a little anatomy lesson to warn the
unsuspecting housewife to examine said hare just in case it turned out to be
a cat or an old hare....
this then raises a question in my mind, no two:
literacy implies a higher social standing
did the mistress go to the viandiers herself or did she send a servant or
thrall?  and I can just picture her saying to the thrall, now see here, make
sure you lift the tail and count the holes.....if there are too many holes,
dont buy the hare!  And I can just picture the poor slob agonizing over the
anatomy....

You are right, Adamantius, a simple thing like a confusing comment can lead
to learning something new.  And y'all can shoot me down, BANG! BANG!
whenever I am out of line.

Angharad ferch Iorwerth; MKA Vicki Shaw
Barony Beyond the Mountain
East Kingdom
vhsjvs at gis.net

www.omygoddess.biz
----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil Troy/ G. Tacitus Adamantius" <adamantius at verizon.net>
To: "Cooks within the SCA" <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 8:34 AM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] a worrisome quote from Le Menagier


> Also sprach vicki shaw:
> >We can go round and round and round on this and never get anywhere.
>
> Yes, but do we need to get anywhere? ;-)
>
> >Somebody said the right thing (sorry someone, can't remember your name)
and
> >I remember reading aobut it before.  It was indeed believed that hares
> >change their gender (ergo orientation) which they believed accounts for
the
> >hares' prolific reproduction rate.
> >
> >I do speak French and pertuiz can also be translated as sluice.  Bottom
line
> >is this bit of information is just a little aside, a little Medieval FYI
> >that really has no bearing on how the hare is prepared or cooked or
> >ultimately tastes.
>
> But thass okay. This list is SCA-Cooks, and while it frequently
> centers on food, both period and general, it's devoted to the
> interests and issues of the cook in the SCA, and that's been known to
> include garb, general history questions, Hostess Twinkies, and a
> bunch of other stuff. Wondering why the author of one of our more
> commonly used recipe sources saw fit to include this information is
> appropriate subject matter for this list, I'd think.
>
> Not that I'm not about to do the Delete Key Boogie on this subject
> myself, mind you...
>
> Adamantius
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