[Sca-cooks] dormice

[Dama Antonia]

On 28/02/2013 4:27 a.m., Johnna Holloway wrote:
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> Why would one want to buy [a dormouse]? They are not very big, so cooking one or a group of them would not yield much meat. I've suggested in the past small squirrel or chipmunks or even hamsters for a substitute.


I don't think quantity is exactly the point.  Why would you want to buy 
quails?  Poussins? Shrimp?

At any rate, according to Wikipedia, the edible dormouse can reach 19cm 
in length (excluding the tail), which I think compares pretty well with 
a smallish squirrel, and would be bigger than a hamster or chipmunk.

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