[Sca-cooks] A few more words on lambs

[Terry Decker]

Interesting, a veal is a calf raised for slaughter, so if one doesn't turn 
it into veal, then it gets castrated and becomes a steer or an ox.  This 
suggests a problem in determining whether a calf is being raised to be veal 
or beef.

I think that technically "boeuf" can be a bull, an ox, a steer, or a cow 
with the conotation that it is being kept for meat, but the precise meaning 
of the term here is probably defined by the context of the writing.

Bear




----- Original Message ----- 

 Young veals or bulls are to be castrated
at 1 1/2 year of age (les veaux ou taureaux seront parvenus au point d'être
châtrés... - p.290) - he subsequently calls these castrated animals
"boeufs".

So even though there appears to be a certain laxism on terms in period, it
seems that castration is what would differentiate younger farm animals from
the more mature ones.

Petru