[Sca-cooks] A few more words on lambs
Terry Decker
t.d.decker at worldnet.att.net
Sun May 21 05:38:21 PDT 2006
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
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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
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