[Sca-cooks] Venison, not necessarily deer meat?

[Antonia di B C]

On 21/05/2011 7:21 AM, lilinah at earthlink.net wrote:
>
> Although no one explicitly answered my question, most replies so far 
> have supported what i posted. So i am led to infer that in SCA-period 
> cookbooks, including those in English, any recipe for "venison" could 
> be made with boar (although most of us have access only to pig), meat 
> of other large game animals, and perhaps hare (or what is sold as 
> rabbit these days),  as well as whatever species of deer meat is 
> available.
>

I'm sorry, what?  Hare and rabbit are two very different animals in 
terms of eating. I'd be very surprised to find hare sold as rabbit.


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