[Sca-cooks] Rotten meat and spices...
Pat
mordonna22 at yahoo.com
Thu Apr 14 08:00:14 PDT 2005
And cutting a light coat of mold from a good cheese is something everyone in my family still does.
Mordonna
Elaine Koogler <ekoogler1 at comcast.net> wrote:
el2iot2 at mail.com wrote:
>I know I have read references to 18th century practices of cutting the mold from hams and cheeses, and other forms of preserved foods. But again, as you say, not in period.
>
>But what we consider "rotten" may be far short of what was thought "rotten" at some other point in history. We really have little or no way to be certain.
>
>I know I eat many things that people around me think are no longer safe to eat. But then I believe, "that which does not kill us, makes us strong".
>
>Joy
>Radei
>
>
I remember, from my childhood, getting hams and shoulders that had been
salt-cured from my grandfather's farm. We hung them in a very cool
place (would have been a smokehouse or something similar had we lived on
a farm), and my mother would occasionally cook one of them. The first
step of the cooking process was to scrub the ham or shoulder thoroughly
to remove the light mold that had accumulated on the meat. The meat
wasn't rotten in any sense of the word....I doubt, given the way it was
preserved, that it could have gone bad. The mold was just a common
occurrance in this situation.
Kiri
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Pat Griffin
Lady Anne du Bosc
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Shire of Thorngill, Meridies
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