[Sca-cooks] Pantry Raid

[JIMCHEVAL at aol.com]

A number of modern recipe books for hunters give recipes for bear; some say 
 to cook it like pork. Some also say that it's like pork in another way: it 
can  carry trichinosis. So cook it well.

The Menagier de Paris frustratingly  mentions eating bear, but only to tell 
the reader how to counterfeit  it:

"To  Counterfeit Bear Venison from a Piece of Beef. Take flank, and let it 
be chopped  in large chunks as for loin stew, then parboil, lard and roast: 
and then boil a  boar's tail_[69]_ 
(http://old.cbbqa.org/history/primary/Menagier.html#fn68) ,  and let your meat boil a little, and throw sauce and all 
in a  dish."


Pichon's note says that "boar's tail" was a  sauce.
 
 
Jim  Chevallier
www.chezjim.com

Newly translated from Pierre Jean-Baptiste  Le Grand d'Aussy:
Eggs, Cheese and Butter in Old Regime France  

 
In a message dated 3/7/2013 8:50:16 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
voztemp at yahoo.com writes:

her  favorite mince meat was  bear.