[Sca-cooks] dormice

[aruvqan]

On 2/28/2013 5:01 PM, Johnna Holloway wrote:
> But would you actually serve dormice or would you serve say the chicken substitute?
> (At least in the USA, the cost might be prohibitive since you might have to use pet priced African dormice, since
> we don't have native dormice. And that could lead to possible charges regarding animal cruelty and using a pet or domesticated animal for food. Both charges in many jurisdictions are misdemeanors.)
>
> I am reminded of the discussion that we had last August with the lady who wanted to make the de Nola kitty cat recipe.
>
> Johnnae
>
Depends on whom I was cooking for. Phlip, Rob and I would probably have 
a go at an original dormouse recipe made with dormice from a pet shop 
[after fattening it up] but for anybody outside the family, chicken leg 
or quail dormice.