[Sca-cooks] Sca-cooks Digest, Vol 2, Issue 85 Peafowl

[Huette von Ahrens]

You are most fortunate.  Here in Caid, a large part of the Kingdom is prohibited from capturing
and killing peafowl, let alone eating them.  Even if you own the darn birds.  Several
cities in Los Angeles County have large flocks of them, and dispite the homeowner's protests,
they have added to the County laws that peafowl are a protected species, not the be killed
or harmed in any way, under threat of fines and incarceration.  So here is Caid, substitutions
have to be made...

Huette


--- Marcus Loidolt <mjloidolt at yahoo.com> wrote:

>   Benedicte, 
>   I have it on good authority from my apprentice THL Robert Thorne, who raises and sells peafowl
> that indeed any cock over a year of age is practically inedible! He maintains that what MIGHT
> have happened in period is to use the skin of an adult cock, tanned or preserved and used to
> dress the carcass of another bird, perhaps a younger peafowl, perhaps something else..
>   Robert maintains that the musk and testosterone produced by a courting cock renders the meat
> very...pardon the pun, but foul!!
>    
>   I have helped slaughter peafowl before, as an experiment, and found this to be true! The young
> birds, upto 8 months of age were fine to eat, the male birds older than a year...BLAH!!!! Mature
> females didn't taste bad, but were of course tougher...
>    
>   Abot Johann
>   medieval poultrier


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