[Sca-cooks] Shake and Bake squirrel

[Stefan li Rous]

Felicia commented:
 > I've had Shake and Bake squirrel!

Well, perhaps you'd like to try the medieval version?

 From my exotic-meats-msg file:
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Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 02:13:26 -0500
From: gfrose at cotton.vislab.olemiss.edu (Terry Nutter)
Subject: Re:  SC - Pears and Jalapenos

Hi, Katerine here.  Stefan li Rous asks:
 >Are there any period recipe for squirrel? There are European  
squirrels,
 >right?

The only one I'm aware of is that it is one of the alternatives for the
meat in Brewet Sarsyn (incorrectly rendered "Farsyn" in the Society of
Antiquaries edition, error reproduced in Warner) in B.L. MS Arundel 334.

It's a very nice brewet indeed, at least when made with chicken.

- -- Katerine/Terry


Date: Sun, 3 Aug 1997 02:17:47 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Sharon L. Harrett" <afn24101 at afn.org>
Subject: Re: SC - Squirrel

On Thu, 31 Jul 1997 Uduido at aol.com wrote:
 > << There are European squirrels, right? >>
 >
 > Yes, indeed. And , joy of joys, you can procure the European  
variety of
 > squirrel right here in the US of A. :-)
 >
 > The red squirrel was introduced from Europe. Even tho' it is  
smaller and
 > kills and eats more birds (about 200 per year per squirrel) than  
our native
 > grey squirrel, it is edible. And the more of them people  
kill...er, I mean
 > eat the sooner this vicious little pest will be gone!
 >> Lord Ras

Greetings from Ceridwen,
       May I quote from Le Menagier? "Squirrels are singed, gutted,  
trussed
like rabbits,roasted or put in pastry; eat with cameline sauce or in  
pastry
with wild duck sauce." Let's see what we can do with this one folks!
*grin*
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Stefan
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