[Sca-cooks] Odd looking things in paintings

[Susan Fox-Davis]

That does look like a cheese, which seems oddly out of place at a 
butcher's shop but who can say?  It's "white meat" and animal based 
protein source anyway.

"Pâté" by definition would be paste, or pastry.  The coverings could be 
wax, although tallow, lard or some other animal fat seems more likely in 
a butcher's shop where such things are rendered anyway.

It's all speculation until we get that time machine and go back for a 
taste test.  Hee.

Micheal wrote:

> 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