[Sca-cooks] "cows eyes"

[Sharon Palmer]

>The 13th C Anon. Al-Andulus cookery has a recipe for making couscous 
>from white breadcrumbs:
>
>At the end of the recipe we are told it can be cooked with fat 
>chicken, turnips and cows eyes. Huici and Perry concur with "cows 
>eyes." What are cows eyes?
>

I'm not sure about Spanish, but in German Ochssenaugen or ox eyes 
mean sunny side up fried eggs.

Ranvaig