Kitchen.HealthSufficiency

Shrove Tuesday is the day when your sins are confessed to the local priest and the beginning of the forty day Lenten fasting period when it was forbidden by the church to eat meat, butter, eggs or milk.   It is attributed to the pagan celebration Fornacalia to commemorate the making of bread before the goddess [...]

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When choosing a leg of ham, buy a small leg which will provide the best quality and tasting meat. A large leg of ham comes from a mature pig and has drier, darker meat whilst boar meat will also have a very strong testosterone stench.
The method used to cure, smoke and [...]

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