SC - Butter-oops

[Philip & Susan Troy]

In a message dated 97-05-19 03:07:37 EDT, you write:

<< The 13th c. Andalusian recipes use both butter and clarified butter.
...<snip many other wonderful words>>>

I looked up recipes that called for butter and found a few. However, my
original intent was to say that butter was not usually consumed by the
nobility.

"In Medieval Europe, butter was plentiful, so it was viewed as fit only for
poor folk to eat.....[from 'Rich Man, Poor Man, Butter Man...';The Great Food
Almanac (A Feast of Facts From A to Z); Irene Chalmers; pg. 169; pub.
Collins; c. 1994]

Since SCA personas are not considered peasantry ,  it was my reasoning that
personas of our type would have rarely consumed butter and it would have
rarely reared it's head on the Feast table of any self-respecting nobleman.
it is still my opinion that bread would have been "spread" with the much
tastier olive oil. In fact, I'm mon a quest to find the info on this
particular subject. "Bread and butter" is a common item in the Current Middle
Ages, agreed. So aren't chickens . But chickens were not a "common" food
during the Middle Ages and I have run across no primary references citing the
existence of "bread and butter". It is also my contention that bread was
almost universally dipped in broths,etc. (e.g. "sops") thus negating the
widespread use of any spread being necessary. I would welcome any further
tho'ts or info in this area.

Yours in Service to the Dream,
Lord Ras (uduido at aol.com)