[Sca-cooks] Rotten meat and spices...

[Terry Decker]

As I recall, the town regulations of Ipswich(?) permitted rotten meat to be 
sold as that before the public stocks.  Selling bad meat as good got you in 
the stocks.

http://the-orb.net/encyclop/culture/towns/ipswich6.html  (found the URL)

You might also try:

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/1237butchers-tuln.html

http://the-orb.net/encyclop/culture/towns/ssp08.html

http://www.countrylife.co.uk/lifecountry/food/medieval_cuisine.php

http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=21971

http://www.godecookery.com/chaucer/chfoodb.htm

Bear


> ;-) However, I remember us discussing a few other things on SCA Cooks 
> List,
> and I'd very much like to have the citations, if y'all can find them. One 
> of
> them was about the butcher who was punished by being made to wear the 
> rotten
> meat around his nexk- another was a discussion of how many critters were
> used in a given town- I think the first cite was from England, the second
> from Italy.
>
>> Hello, Phlip,