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

[Nancy Kiel]

What I was trying to suggest is that perhaps the violent illness caused by 
eating rotten food would make you not want to eat whatever had been in your 
stomach when you were sick, ever again.  After the tequila incident, I 
couldn't eat chicken teriyaki (entirely blameless), because it was involved 
with my being so sick.  On the other hand, perhaps I suffer from an 'excess 
of sensibility,' as the Regency writers put it, and have the luxury of being 
fussy.

In regards to mold, I have been told that white or green mold is OK, but 
yellow ir red mold is bad.  I have not attempted any scientific experiments 
to verify this.



Nancy Kiel
nancy_kiel at hotmail.com
Never tease a weasel!
This is very good advice.
For the weasel will not like it
And teasing isn't nice.




>From: Chris Stanifer <jugglethis at yahoo.com>
>Reply-To: Cooks within the SCA <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
>To: Cooks within the SCA <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
>Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Rotten meat and spices... Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 
>04:06:21 -0700 (PDT)
>
>
>--- Nancy Kiel <nancy_kiel at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > One thing I've always wondered about, with this whole "eating spoiled 
>meats"
> > idea is---wouldn't it make you sick?
>
>Sure, there was the possibility that you would get sick from eating tainted 
>meats.  There was also
>the possibility that you would get sick breathing the air next to the 
>tainted Thames river...or
>catching Cholera or the Black Death walking past the neighborhood dog.  
>And, there are still meat
>products in use today (even in vogue today) which are little more than 
>'off' meats seasoned
>heavily with spices and/or salt (look up the process for Procuitto de Parma 
>sometime).  At any
>rate, I don't believe we are really talking about slimy, maggot infested 
>meats to begin with... I
>think the idea is that meats which have 'gone off', or have started to 
>smell a little more pungent
>than is palatable, were spiced heavily to disguise the fact (or, indeed, to 
>prevent further
>deterioration).  There are references to this practice in several of the 
>extant manuscripts, and
>you can find them if you look for them.
>
>
>William de Grandfort
>
>
>
>Through teeth of sharks, the Autumn barks.....and Winter squarely bites me.
>
>
>
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