[Sca-cooks] udder things to consider

James Prescott prescotj at telusplanet.net
Thu Feb 3 15:46:00 PST 2011


Ouverture was cuisine intended for the tables of Bishops, one of whom
was also a Prince and Elector of the Holy Roman Empire.  So it is
likely that it would have been acceptable to serve cow's udder at
a feast for a King.


Thorvald


At 4:47 PM -0600 2/3/11, Stefan li Rous wrote:
>  <<< Is this one of those historical dishes like horse that was 
> eaten during harsh times? I can't imagine someone just decided one 
> day, " I am going to serve cow udder to the King today."
>  Aelina >>>
>
>  Blanket statements about our time period tend to turn out to be 
> false. That is true of the statement "like horse that was eaten 
> during harsh times".  It is true that horse was not eaten by the 
> nobility in Europe but I'm not sure that we've determined that that 
> was true for the lower classes. I find it difficult to believe that 
> they would let an elderly plow horse go to waste.
>
>  And it wasn't true in western Asia. We do have various recipes for 
> horse meat from there.
>  horse-recipes-msg (34K) 10/16/04 Period horse recipes. References.
>  http://www.florilegium.org/files/FOOD-MEATS/horse-recipes-msg.html
>
>  Since we do have a number of recipes from different cultures and 
> times for udder, it must not have been as distasteful as say, 
> insects, but I think it will take more research on these recipes to 
> decide if they were limited by class or could have been served to a 
> king.
>
>  Serving udder to an SCA King would likely get you a variety of 
> results, depending upon the King. If you aren't that brave, there 
> is apparently an udder illusion made from eggs mentioned in the 
> Florilegium eggs-msg file.
>
>  Stefan
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