[Sca-cooks] Another look at a Florilegium entry...

[Phlip]

Selene, Stefan, In the Florilegium, Selene has the following note posted:


Ene bichizh ogsen baina shuu...

Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 11:43:05 -0800

From: Susan Fox-Davis <selene at earthlink.net>

Subject: Re: SC - Fw: [Mid] Society Equestrian Newsletter! (fwd)

I really have to worry when the equestrian notices show up on the cooks'
list.
We just voted against use of horses for human consumption here in
California.Okay, it's period. The Bayeaux Tapestry has a panel showing a
cook leading
several animals off to the rotisserie, and one of the food-beasts is clearly
a
horse. A fat little pony, clearly not a Knight's Charger. However... just
because it's period, doesn't mean I want to eat it.

Lady Selene Colfox, Caid

not an equivore

selene at earthlink.net

That letter has just come up on the SCA-Equestrian List, in a discussion on
the usage of horses in period, and several people are objecting to that
interpretation, since the small horse/pony in question is apparently
carrying a pack similar to the packs larger horses are carrying elsewhere on
the tapestry. Think we want to look at that again (if we can find a picture
of it) and reconsider our interpretations? I would tend to think, not having
seen the picture, that if the poiny is loaded like that, it might not _be_ a
foodstuff, but rather be _carrying_ a foodstuff, but I haven't seen that
section yet, since I'm not into the Tapestry, that when/where, or fiber
arts.

Now, insofar as using horses for meat, I tend to be resistant as I would be
for dogs or cats, but I know it's done, and I have actually tasted horse
meat, but at the very least, we might want to put an addendum into trhe
Florilegium, stating that that interpretation, at least in that particular
case, is being contested.

Anybody who wants to go look at the Florilegium, the entry is:

http://www.florilegium.org/files/FOOD-MEATS/horse-recipes-msg.html


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....