SC - onion soup - IP

[DUNHAM Patricia R]

I don't have any of my sources right now. I have been researching pottery 
from the middle ages which naturally includes plates. However, my 
impression from reading various period cookbooks and research is that the 
English peasants would have used either wood or pottery (it was very 
cheaply made and cheap to buy) before the 1500's. The upperclass used 
mostly bread trenchers until the 1500's when they went to using wood, 
pewter and silver trenchers. I have read some evidence the upper class 
used wood somewhat but not at the larger feasts.  Pottery wasn't used 
much as plates by the upper class until majolica made it to England in 
late period. Pottery was relatively crude in England until that time.  In 
Italy on the other hand, folks of all classes were using pottery & wood 
and the uppers used pewter & silver much, much earlier.  But of course, 
us Italians were always much more civilized.

Clarissa
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