[Sca-cooks] Smoked Meats in Northern Europe

[David Friedman]

>Or, to put it another way, how comfortable would you be having the 
>hero of the medieval historical novel you're writing pack smoked meat
>into his saddle bags for a journey, all other things being equal?

Since you asked:
--
"Back home, they smoke meat for days, weeks sometime."
"Keep it for months, too. This'll be gone in a few days. Then beans 
if we can cook them, oat cakes, dried stuff while it lasts."
---
 From my novel _Harald_, recently published by Baen.

Not quite a historical novel, but close.

Was I wrong? Le Menagier has that line about smoking sausage in a 
chimney where a fire is kept all of the year.
-- 
David/Cariadoc
www.daviddfriedman.com