[Bryn-gwlad] trenchers and plateware

[Robin Craig]

Oh!  I also found this - http://www.foodtimeline.org/
Pretty cool.

-Robin


On Sep 5, 2006, at 3:42 PM, elizabeth at crouchet.com wrote:

>
> 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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>> Tim McDaniel, tmcd at panix.com
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