[Sca-cooks] Funeral foods ...

[Susan Fox]

Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius wrote:

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> On Apr 7, 2006, at 12:49 PM, Judith L. Smith Adams wrote:
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>> "White meats" really is a new one  to me...
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> It appears to be more a 17th-century usage, but it's fairly common,  
> then.
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> Adamantius


16th, at least...

"Leave Lot with her pillar (good Cisley) alone,

Much saltness in white meat is ill for the stone."

Thomas Tusser, "Lesson for Dairy-Maid Cisley"
from Five Hundreth Points of Husbandrie... 1573

http://www.gallowglass.org/jadwiga/SCA/cooking/TusserCheese.html

Selene, the other white meat <G>