37 minutes ago, AlaMoi said:. . . and now should we discuss the "joint of beef" thing?
To be perfectly truthful, I don't know exactly what cut of beef if it was. The closest that I can figure out is that it was a rump roast with the bone in. Sometimes they roasted the whole side of beef and that definitely went on a spit in front of a roaring fire. The scullery maid got off easy on this one. It was either the pot boy or the low man on the totem pole in the kitchen that had to sit there and turn it for about 8 or 10 hours. Then some sadistic idiot invented the treadmill for a dog. They They even had a special breed of dog to turn it. It looked like a cross between a Spaniel and a dachshund and is now extinct. I can't imagine what incentive they used to keep that poor little guy running.
