[Sca-cooks] stuffed camel, anyone

[Stefan li Rous]

<<< I don't know that I've ever heard of anyone making a whole stuffed
camel...and I haven't seen any recipes for camel in any of the ME  
cookbooks,
though I'm far from being an expert.  However, I have heard of roasts  
made
from the camel's hump...

Kiri

On 2/23/07, Johnna Holloway <johnna at sitka.engin.umich.edu> wrote:

> This has been on the MK Cooks list this week and it seemed
> like it would amuse some on this list as well... Johnnae
>
>>
>> On Feb 22, 2007, at 4:55 PM, Jeff Elder wrote:
>>
>>> Q. Stuffed Camel: Fact or Fiction
>>> http://mideastfood.about.com/od/middleeasternfood101/f/ 
>>> stuffedcamel.htm
>>>
>>> Anyone have any views...?
>>>
>> ****** Doc checked it out and wrote
>>
> Snopes says it's a real published recipe, but doesn't say whether  
> anyone
> actually has ever made it.
>
>> http://www.snopes.com/food/prepare/camel.asp    - Doc
>> From: Daniel Myers <edoard at medievalcookery.com>  >>>

You can find this recipe referenced several times in the Florilegium.  
Several are in this file:
meat-stuffed-msg  (24K)  4/20/05    Meat stuffed with various mixtures.

Here is a message originally posted to this list:
<<< Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:20:44 -0800
From: Susan Fox-Davis <selene at earthlink.net>
To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] roasting meat question

 > A while back I read about a feast where they roasted a steer,  
stuffed with a
 > deer, stuffed with a pig, then a lamb, then a goose, then a ......  
I am sure
 > none of this is in the right order, but it was a bunch of animals,  
a smaller
 > one in the cavity of the next larger, and so on and so on, etc.
 >
 > Question..Does anyone have any idea what I am referring to? Any  
idea where
 > or even how I would check?
 >
 > Isabella

Culinary Taxidermy - stuffing foods with other foods
http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Culinary_20Taxidermy

Whole Stuffed Camel recipe from Saudi Arabia
Camel stuffed with lambs stuffed with chickens stuffed with eggs,  
rice in any
space that was left
http://home.tiac.net/~cri/1997/camel.html

Illustrated procedure for the Turducken
http://casa.colorado.edu/~kachun/tdc_recipe.shtml

Know that I mean it in the nicest possible way when I say: get stuffed!

Best, Selene Colfox   >>>>

I'm not sure if this link is to a modern or period recipe. I think  
one of the other messages references a period recipe for this, but  
doesn't give the actual recipe. There are also messages about eating  
camel, I think in period, but not one being stuffed repeatedly.

Plugging "camel" or "stuffed camel" into the search engine should  
turn up the various Florilegium recipes for camel.

Stefan
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