[Sca-cooks] back to food was PETA

[Phlip]

Ene bichizh ogsen baina shuu...

> Well, yeah, but Ulfr was talking about contaminating the meat by it coming
> in contact with the *wool*.
>
> I know in commercial production they shear the sheep to make butchering
> easier (or so a friend of mine assures me--she's into both fiber and
> toxicology). Does it make as much of a difference when it's by hand, as it
> were?
>
> Margaret

Kinda depends on how long the wool is. You wouldn't ask someone with a crew
cut to tie up their hair working in a kitchen, but you might ask someone
with long(er) hair to do so, longer being a matter of judgement.

Personally, I never have, but all the sheep I've butchered had fairly short
coats. At the Pennsic class, though, one lady busily cut the hair from the
pelt while the rest of us were cutting up the meat- dunno if she got enough
to spin- didn't discuss it with her after that..

But, I could definitely see doing it, if it was long enough- after all, a
fleece is a commodity too.

Saint Phlip,
CoDoLDS

"When in doubt, heat it up and hit it with a hammer."
 Blacksmith's credo.

 If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it is probably not a
cat.

Never a horse that cain't be rode,
And never a rider who cain't be throwed....

----- Original Message -----
From: "Pixel, Goddess and Queen" <pixel at hundred-acre-wood.com>
To: "Cooks within the SCA" <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 18, 2004 1:31 AM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] back to food was PETA


> >
> > Ene bichizh ogsen baina shuu...
> >
> > > Unless butchering techniques have changed substantially in the last
couple
> > > of hundred years, you usually peel animals before you cut them up.
> > >
> >
> > Well, actually, my sequence is- Kill them, hang them, gut them, skin
them,
> > and then cut them. The difficulty with sheep is that the lanolin on
their
> > coats is strong flavored, and after skinning the, you really do need to
wash
> > your hands before handling the meat.
> >
> > Saint Phlip,
> > CoDoLDS
> >
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