[Bryn-gwlad] trenchers and plateware

[elizabeth@crouchet.com]

It's flour and water, made into a dough, spread flat and baked on pan over the fire. Can be baked until hard. What is NOT 
period about it? I would guess it is more apporpirate than modern focaccia. A flour tortilla is more like period pie dough, which 
was a holder and not meant to be eaten either. 

So what did a trencher look like? I remember they were not really meant to be eaten like bread. They were utilitarian and 
disposable. They were only eaten by the poor and the pigs. 

Any one have a recipe and instructions for a food trencher or was this so common it didn't need a recipe?

Claire  


On 5 Sep 2006 at 15:19, Tim McDaniel wrote:

> On Tue, 5 Sep 2006, elizabeth at crouchet.com wrote:
> > How about a flour tortilla? Acts like a paper plate.
> 
> Do you have any period evidence of them?
> 
> Daniel de Lincoln
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