[Sca-cooks] The Bell of a Hog or Sheep

Sandra Kisner sjk3 at cornell.edu
Mon Sep 19 11:50:31 PDT 2011


> So I am working on a critical edition of a cook book at the moment and have decided that I need to footnote (for less experienced readers) the phrase "the bell of a hogge or sheepe".

Not only do I wonder if "bell" is related to "belly," I wonder if 
"hogge" refers to "hog" or "hogget."

Sandra




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