SC - Milk-Down on the Farm - OT

[Rachel Trigg]

M'lord:
Essentially, you are correct. Very briefly, Lent starts with Ash Wednesday
and is 40 days, not counting Sundays, in length. Technically, the last day
of Lent is Holy Saturday, the day between Good Friday (the day Jesus was
crucified) and Easter Sunday (the day He rose again). Unfortunately, I do
not know what the medieval traditions were towards fast days/feasting days. 

BTW, I describe myself as a Roman Catholic with delusions of Episcopalian.
:-)

        Lady Brighid O Maoilsheachlainn
        (mka Rachel Trigg), rtrigg at hoflink.com
        Barony of Ponte Alto, Atlantia
****Quidquid latine dictum sit altum viditur.****

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> From: LrdRas <LrdRas at aol.com> 
> To: sca-cooks at Ansteorra.ORG 
> Subject: SC - Milk-Down on the Farm-longish 
> Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 10:46:45 EST 
> 
> To conclude my tho'ts about the use of excess milk during the Lenten
season ,
> IIRC, the Lenten season is 40 days of mourning preceeding the memory of
the
> death of Jesus the Christ which ends with the celebration of His
ressurection
> on Easter Sunday. (Please feel free to correct me if I am wrong as my
> knowledge of Christian festivals is limited to those customs that directly
> affect my own religion).  Traditional Easter cuisine features a LOT of
butter.
> So, IMHO, during the Middle Ages, the excess milk produced by cows during
the
> Lenten season was most probably made into butter and used to slop the
hogs.
> 
> al-Sayyid Ras al-Zib, AoA, OSyc



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