[Sca-cooks] medieval dog recipes

[Radei Drchevich]

What is considered proper fair for the noble has changed greatly over the
centuries.

I have reference in one of my latin works written before 400 CE, I
believe it is "A Term of Ovid", I can find the quote if you are
interested.  that refers to a Grand Imperial Feast at which were served
Flamingo Tongues, Thrushes Tongue boiled in Honey, Sows Utter stuffed
with Fried Baby Mices<not deboned, and prefur-out, so crispy little
buggers>, as well as many other things the modern mind would find
completely inedible. 

Chocolate covered ants or grasshoppers, as well as fried ants or
grasshoppers are considered high fair in some places. What we see today
as not edible except in dire condition may have been quite popular even
gourmet in its time.

some call it fish bait, some call it cavier<g>, some call it a garden
pest some call it Escargot

joy

radei

  ----- Original Message -----
  From: "RON CARNEGIE"
  To: "Cooks within the SCA"
  Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] medieval dog recipes
  Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 12:10:11 -0500


  Drakes men ate Penguins, well within our period while
  circumnavigatring the globe. They were not in Antartica, they were
  on South America. You have to get around the cape to do that and
  that is pretty far down the Southern Hemisphere. It was actually
  on an island in the vicinity of the cape.

  A quick perusal of the Account of Frobisher's Second Voyage does
  support Bear's comments. Frobisher's party found items which were
  described to them by a captive eskimo. This included a sled. The
  writer oges on to describe how the Eskimoux use dogs to drice sleds
  the way Englishment use horses and that they keep them in there
  houses to fatten for meat as we do cattle.



  Ranald De Balinhard


  ----- Original Message ----- From: "Terry Decker"

  To: "Cooks within the SCA"
  Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2006 8:41 AM
  Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] medieval dog recipes


  >
  >> Capt. Elias answered my question with:
  >> >>>
  >> 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...
  >> <<<
  >>
  >> When was this? Was this before 1600 CE?
  >>
  >> I agree on the tastes of sailors. I think there are other
  >> reports of them eating penquins and the like. This probably lies
  >> in the outlying region of things eaten during sieges or famines.
  >> But while not something which would be served to Lords and
  >> Ladies, much less Royalty, probably worth our study.
  >>
  >> Stefan
  >
  > I believe Capt. Elias is referring to Frobisher's comments on the
  > natives eating their sled dogs in times of etreme privation from
  > the report of Frobisher's second voyage to find the Northwest
  > Passage (1577).
  >
  > While sailors may have eaten penguins, any such reports are
  > probably after 1600 as exploration of the far Southern Hemishere
  > really gets moving in the 18th Century.
  >
  > Bear
  >
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