SC - succession-houses

[Terry Nutter]

Hi, Katerine here.  Stefan asks:

>Were/Are these horsehair strainers "woven" like the ones using metal wire
>that
>we see today? Or were the horsehairs just laid in one direction and then in
>another at ninety degrees on top of the first?  Were these used as
>"strainers" 
>or just for whipping?

I don't know the answer to the first question.

As to the second, it is the use for whipping that is not clearly supported
in the English corpus.  Use for simple straining is ubiquitous, especially
for sauces.  A huge proportion of medieval English recipes call for straining
things, most of which can't meaningfully be whipped.

Cheers,

- -- Katerine/Terry

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