[Sca-cooks] Odd looking things in paintings

[Micheal]

 Odd looking indeed would not a modern health inspector be going out of his 
mind. ( Jest) I do believe that a cheese under the chickens feet isn`t it. 
Love the hanging sausage any idea as to which kinds are there. The small 
rounds appear to me as a pate wrapped in wax ???
 Da
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From: "Susan Fox-Davis" <selene at earthlink.net>
To: "Cooks within the SCA" <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Monday, February 28, 2005 1:42 PM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Odd looking things in paintings


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> Daniel Myers wrote:
>
>> Howdy,
>>
>> In the paintings below, there are these things that look something (but 
>> not completely) like a baby brie cut in half.  Any ideas what they are?
>>
>> Here they're on the tray on the table
>> http://www.rijksmuseum.nl/images/aria/sk/z/sk-a-3.z
>
> Those look like cheese to me, sliced in half and some of the tasty insides 
> already eaten.  The party is getting wild, isn't it?  They've thrown 
> flowers and leeks on the floor, along with what look to be mussel shells, 
> and that one guy has kicked off his wooden sabots to dance.  Woo hoo!
>
>> There's only one here - leaning on a pitcher - I'd think it was a 
>> mushroom cap, but the inside doesn't look right.
>> http://www.rijksmuseum.nl/images/aria/sk/z/sk-a-4821.z
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> I think that is a round loaf of bread to go with all that cheese.
>
>> At the butcher's, lower center - there's one white, one beige, and two 
>> that are reddish-brown (if it's brie then Yuck!).
>> http://www.wga.hu/art/a/aertsen/butchers.jpg
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> Some cheeses come in vivid colors, particulary out from under the modern 
> draconian raw milk regulations.  On the other hand, this is a meat shop 
> and those might be some kind of pate's instead.
>
> Selene
>
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