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[lilinah at earthlink.net]

Alys K./ Elise Fleming wrote:
> Greetings! Has anyone else noticed recipe 54, "About cooking the whole 
> ox"? The tale told after the basic recipe comments about an ox, with a 
> big sheep inside, which had a calf inside, and the calf contained a 
> capon. An old reference to a meaty "turducken"??

There are a number of early recipes for animals stuffed into animals in Arabic-language cookbooks. There are a couple in the Fadalat al-Khiwan, which i'm translating. I can't post now because i shouldn't be checking my e-mail, but getting my class notes ready to print handouts for Pennsic.

I'll post later...

Urtatim al-Qurtubiyya