SC - Request for documentation

[margali]

> I get the feeling that serving this to nobles at a feast would be very
>
> embarassing to the host and thus possibly hazardous to the cook. My
> reading says the nobility expected the white bread, not those
> of other flours especially not pea flour.
>
> Might be an interesting idea for those tossing around above the salt/
> below the salt feasts. To my modern eye it might be nice to have
> something for us non-high table types that we get to ourselves.
> Normally,
> the high table folks get everything we get and then any special items.
>
> Stefan li Rous

Well, this may be true, but then again pease porrige and turnips and
cabbage could be considered to be pesant food, as meat tended to be what
the nobles wanted to eat, and as labor intensively prepared as possible,
with the sides being chock full of fat and sugars. Besides, I can't
remember where the feast is supposed to occur, and they don't raise
chick peas in Brittain, so it would be imported and therefor fair game
for a feast, that is if you can document importation of chick peas to
london in 1100 or where/whenever.
margali

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