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

[Pat]

Then you would also give her credit for being smarter than modern farm widows.  I lived and worked in farm country for 20 years.  While my husband at the time was (unfortunately) not dead, he was an alcoholic and gambler, and absent most of the time.  I had several friends and relatives who WERE widows.  I can tell you that quite often we made do with the vegetables we could grow and some lard or fat back (or "bacon" if you will) while we fed the pigs and cows so that we could use the proceeds to pay taxes, buy flour and salt, and put the kids through school.  On a poor farm, your livestock are your resources, not your larder.
 
Mordonna

Chris Stanifer <jugglethis at yahoo.com> wrote:

--- Pat wrote:
> She probably kept them for breeding stock, and sold or bartered the pigs for flour, salt, and
> other necessities. If she just ate them, they wouldn't last her long.
> 
> Mordonna

I seriously doubt this. If she was breeding the pigs, then she most likely had plenty of little
piglets running around during the mating season. I find it very difficult to believe that, with a
litter of piglets running the yard, she would have traded them all for salt and flour without
taking at least a few for the dinner table. I'm pretty convinced that these medieval types were
just a wee bit smarter than we give them credit for.

WdG



Through teeth of sharks, the Autumn barks.....and Winter squarely bites me.



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Pat Griffin
Lady Anne du Bosc
known as Mordonna the Cook
Shire of Thorngill, Meridies
Mundanely, Millbrook, AL