Capon
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For other uses, see Capon (disambiguation).
A capon is a castrated cockerel (rooster).
Caponisation produces a bird prized for its tenderness, and takes the stringiness out of a cockerel's meat.
The Romans are credited with inventing the capon. The Lex Faunia of 162 BCE forbade fattening hens as a way of conserving grain. In order to get around this the Romans castrated roosters, which resulted in a doubling of size.[1]
European Gastronomic texts of the past dealt largely with capons, as the ordinary chicken of the farmyard was regarded as peasant fare, "popular malice crediting monks with a weakness for capons."[2]
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