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Cait ---- Original Message ---- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [SCA_Coursing] 18th century Turnspits, was Re: Dog Powered Machinery Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 01:41:18 -0000 ><html><body> > > ><tt> ><BR> >--- In [email protected], "Edie Bain" ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:<BR> >> <a >href="http://www.gtj.org.uk/en/item1/7809";>http://www.gtj.org.uk/en/i >tem1/7809</a><BR> >> <BR> >> Is this the pic you were looking at, Randwulf? <G><BR> ><BR> >That is the photograph in the book, The Lost History of the Canine ><BR> >Race, by Mary Elizabeth Thurston (1996, Page143) The webpage >has a <BR> >better copy of the photograph than the Thurston book. Thanks >for <BR> >sharing it!<BR> ><BR> >I was under the impression, that Turnspit dogs were any small dog >with <BR> >the right stature for fiting in the "hamster" wheel. >The Thurston book <BR> >has some interesting, but post period, in formation on pages 122 to >125.<BR> ><BR> >Quote<BR> >Carl Linnaeus, the famous Swedish naturalist, recognized Turnspits in ><BR> >1756, reporting that there were long and short haired varieties, both ><BR> >characteristically sporting grizzled or spotted coats, as well as ><BR> >distinctively crooked legs. <BR> >End Quote. Lost History of the Canine Race.<BR> ><BR> ><BR> >A SCAdian cook who is a friend of mine, spotted an article in <BR> >Gastronomica that mentioned 18th century Turnspit dogs and had a copy ><BR> >of the Thomas Rowlandson picture of an 18th century kitchen at <BR> >Newcastle. The picture shows a terrior sized dog in a >"hamster" wheel <BR> >turning the cooking spit.<BR> ><BR> >Jeanne Schinto, "The Clockwork Roasting Jack or How Technology >Entered <BR> >the Kitchen" Gastronomica, Winter 2004. Pages 33 >-39. Pages 34 and 37 <BR> >have the information on Turnspits.<BR> ><BR> >Quote:<BR> >When knighthood was in flower,... turning the spit by hand became a ><BR> >specialized task. Assigned to it were male scullions >discriptively <BR> >named "Turnspits." Tirmspits weren't known as refined >characters; <BR> >the ... tedious job inspired them to drink.... A drunken >turnspit <BR> >couldn't be a reliable one, and in Tudor tiems, the human power of ><BR> >these menials was replaced by dog power. <BR> ><BR> >A canine turnspit ran a treadmill similar to a hamster's exercise ><BR> >wheel. A pulley system linked the dog's wheel to a smaller >wheel <BR> >attached to the end of the spit by a belt. As the dog ran, both >wheels <BR> >turned along with the spitted meat.... Thomas Rowlandson... drew a ><BR> >turnspit working such a wheel after a visit to Wales in the late <BR> >eighteenth century.. The dog in the Rowlandson scene looks the >way the <BR> >breed has been described by many writers of the period: small, long ><BR> >bodied, short legged.<BR> >End Quote.<BR> ><BR> ><BR> ><BR> >Rachel<BR> ><BR> ><BR> ><BR> ><BR> ></tt> > > > > ><!-- |**|begin egp html banner|**| --> > ><br> ><tt><hr width="500"> ><b>Yahoo! Groups Links</b><br> ><ul> ><li>To visit your group on the web, go to:<br><a >href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SCA_Coursing/";>http://groups.yaho >o.com/group/SCA_Coursing/</a><br> ><li>To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:<br><a >href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >ribe">[EMAIL PROTECTED]</a><br> ><li>Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the <a >href="http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/";>Yahoo! Terms of Service</a>. ></ul> ></tt> ></br> > ><!-- |**|end egp html banner|**| --> > > ></body></html> ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Has someone you know been affected by illness or disease? Network for Good is THE place to support health awareness efforts! http://us.click.yahoo.com/rkgkPB/UOnJAA/Zx0JAA/PJ_qlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SCA_Coursing/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
