[Sca-cooks] medieval dog recipes

[Jeff Gedney]

>In part I was kidding. However, I would be interested in any >evidence of dogs being eaten in our period and area of study.

I believe that in the voyages of Martin Frobisher to find the 
NorthWest Passage, they cooked Eskimo dogs and noted various 
anatomical differences between them and European dogs... 

Let me check the Refs for you, It might be in Hakluyt.
Alas as I recall they did not give anythings like a recipe. 
But they seemed quite familiar with the concept of eating dog. 
Of course that is not surprising, after weeks of nothing 
but weevily biscuit and dried peas, and rancid salt beef, 
it would be surprising if the sailors would not be willing 
to munch on just about anything for variety. 

Capt Elias
Dragonship Haven, East
(Stratford, CT, USA)
Apprentice in the House of Silverwing

-Renaissance Geek of the Cyber Seas
- Help! I am being pecked to death by the Ducks of Dilletanteism! 
There are SO damn many more things I want to try in 
the SCA than I can possibly have time for. 
It's killing me!!!

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Upon the hempen tackle ship-boys climbing;
Hear the shrill whistle which doth order give
To sounds confused; behold the threaden sails,
Borne with the invisible and creeping wind,
Draw the huge bottoms through the furrow'd sea,
Breasting the lofty surge: O, do but think
You stand upon the ravage and behold
A city on the inconstant billows dancing;
For so appears this fleet majestical,
Holding due course to Harfleur. 
  - Shakespeare - Henry V, Act III, Prologue