[Bryn-gwlad] Utensyle of Kytchen Disciplynne

[tmcd@panix.com]

Thank Ghu I'm far from my dear liege lady the chef, and that I don't
volunteer in kitchens here.

<http://www.leatherbeaten.com/floggers.html>
That page is NOT WORK SAFE.
There's a woodcut apparently from the original source.  The text is

    Utensyle of Kytchen Disciplynne

    An actual medieval device, which can be seen in the book
    'Kuchenmeisterei', (Augsburg, 1507) and revived by Leatherbeaten
    almost 500 years later. The Utensyle of Kytchen Disciplynne was
    how Bavarians of the middle ages ensured dishes were done to
    stringent criteria of cleanliness and celerity. Today's Utensyle
    is a three tailed knotted flogger made of light belting
    cowhide. The knots are dense Diamond Button knots, each compacting
    six inches of leather into a knot barely 1/2" in diameter.  The
    tails are attached to a relatively long handle, decorated with
    three leather collars, accented top and bottom with bands of
    silver wire.  Very eyecatching, and exactly what Cook needs when
    one of the brainless kitchen drones sneezes into the Master's
    tortus of fysshe.

    Cdn $107.75

I haven't checked the Oxford English Dictionary, but I suspect that
"Utensyle of Kytchen Disciplynne" is only their attempt at Ye Olde
Spellynge and doesn't represent real OED-attested period spellings.
(For one thing, the original is purportedly in German.)

Danihel Lincolnia
-- 
Tim McDaniel; Reply-To: tmcd at panix.com