sca-cooks Re: Re[2]: Research paper on Medieval foods.

[Heather Swann]

Greetings from Eden of Lionsguard,
Adamantius wrote:
>> Subtleties can be made of anything, and served in any course!
>>
>True, especially when you consider the fact that a sweet course at the
>end of the meal is a distinctly modern one.

Actually this is not quite a modern concept after all.
Many late medieval feasts end with wafers and ypocras as a digestive
and in the english renaissance  the feast was often followed by a banquet
which was a seperate course composed of sweets  (essentially a modern
dessert buffet)
read "Banquetting stuffe" edited by C.Anne Wilson for more than you ever
wanted to know on the topic :->

Eden, who often ends her medieval meals with wafers, cause they're yummy.


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