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[ReneZ]

The discussion in the old mailing list was mainly concentrating on the use of 'poxleber' as an invective or curse. This goes back to the 15th century Nürnberger Fastnachtspiele written among others by Hans Folz (1435/1440 - 1513), as Anton has already pointed out here.

In the Züricher Arzneibuch (Zürich Zentralbibliothek MS C 58) which is from the 12th century, there is a recipe that includes: "so nim pocches lebere". This is of course a different spelling, but it is the same thing, and shows that recipes including goat liver existed. (In fact they exist since antiquity, typically against night blindness).