[Sca-cooks] wild rabbit

[Susan Lin]

According to my scientist husband - yes, cooking will destroy the plague
organism but the question remains as to whether cooking destroys the toxins.

Shoshanah

On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 9:38 PM, Arianwen ferch Arthur <caer_mab at yahoo.com>wrote:

> 1.  September has an R in it (sure they are not confusing the do not eat
> oysters unless month has a R in it, although the "frozen north" probably
> has hard freezes in September and April... I grew up in Phx so we didn't
>
> 2.  How recent is recent?  in 1977, there were 2 HS students in Ash Fork
> AZ, out shooting rabbits, and got plague...and the warnings about plague &
> rabbits is still out there  (what works against fleas?) (Does cooking
> destroy the plague organism?)
>
> And how scary is it to think about it still being around, was it prevalent
> world wide or brought by the European settlers...
>
>
>
> Arianwen ferch Arthur
>
> "Outside of a dog a book is man's best friend. And inside of a dog it's
> too dark to read." G. Marx
>
> --- On Sat, 9/8/12, sca-cooks-request at lists.ansteorra.org <
> sca-cooks-request at lists.ansteorra.org> wrote:
> ...  Settlers have a story about not eating or killing rabbit unless
> the month had an R in it.  I haven't been able to find a credible source
> for a positive moderately recent plague bunny source, but many with prairie
> dogs and squirrels.Aldyth
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