[Sca-cooks] Mountain Oysters was Re: Okra

[Elaine Koogler]

No, I don't think it is.  My grandparents lived in the Shenandoah Valley of
Virginia...and that's what they called them.

Kiri

On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 2:41 PM, <yaini0625 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I don't think the term "Rocky Mountain Oysters" is exclusive to Oklahoma. I
> grew up here in California and heard my Mom and Grandfather talk about them
> all the time. The recipe I do have is from Grandpa.
> My other Grandfather who was a Swedish/Saami used to lament that he
> couldn't get Reindeer "oysters" in Los Angeles. He said only the men would
> eat the parts and women weren't allowed to even touch the part. He could
> find just about everything else. To my knowledge I don't think he ever tried
> beef "oysters." He would eat the marrow on fresh bread.  In my own research
> on reindeer cuisine I haven't found any referenced to Reindeer testicle,yet.
> Aelina the Saami
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Terry Decker" <t.d.decker at att.net>
> Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 07:49:29
> To: Cooks within the SCA<sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org>
> Subject: [Sca-cooks] Mountain Oysters was Re:  Okra
>
> Hmmm, I've only heard the term "mountain oysters" used in relation to
> cattle
> rather than hogs, although the term might easily be applied to any land
> mammal.  In Oklahoma, the term applied is calf fries or lamb fries for
> breaded and fried testicles.  Haven't heard of any hog fries yet, but
> industrial swine production is only about a decade old and is concentrated
> out in the Panhandle (last I checked).
>
> Bear
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>
> Okra has a distinct flavor (and yes a distinct texture whether raw,
> pickeled, boiled or fried). It is the ingriedent that turns a cajun/creole
> soup or stew into Gumbo. On a different note... the "mountain oysters" that
> are considered a delicacy for the "refined" pallet in the US that I haven't
> seen mentioned are horse testicles.(I always thought that "mountain
> oysters"
> reffered only to hog testicles only, just shows how regional language usage
> effects us.)
> Lady Lie du Bosc
>
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