[Sca-cooks] dormice

[Dama Antonia]

On 28/02/2013 10:19 a.m., Johnna Holloway wrote:
> Both the live ones and the stuffed ones in the museum at Snežnik Castle were not as large as a squirrel.
> Wikipedia in the entry on the edible dormouse says 4.2-5.3 ounces which doubles right before hibernation. So the whole
> animal weighs maybe 10.6 ounces. Fox squirrels weigh 1.1-2.2 pounds by comparison.

That's quite true- I was thinking of smaller species such as red 
squirrels when I typed it.  Grey squirrels and fox squirrels would 
certainly be a fair bit bigger than an edible dormouse.

Still, people eat lots of fairly small creatures because they think 
they're tasty.

I believe it's the extra pre-hibernation fat that's supposed to make the 
dormouse good eating.

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Antonia di Benedetto Calvo
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