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

[Jadwiga Zajaczkowa / Jenne Heise]

> That's reading quite a bit into it, I think.  The mention of bacon alone indicates that she did
> have ample pork as a protein source,

Gies and Gies and other sources indicate that bacon and other small 
portions of meat were often given to day laborers as hire or given out 
among the customary exchanges for harvest help. So she might not have 
had a pig in order to have bacon. 

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