SC - Non-Period??

[Kallyr]

In a message dated 98-05-04 10:36:12 EDT, you write:

<< In period, I would suspect that less than 1% of all recipes were ever
 written down.  A lot of standards like bread weren't written down, and
 some cultures just didn't write any recipes down (the Irish are a good
 example).  And just how much do we know about what the peasants ate on a
 regular basis? >>

Yes and most people don't acknowledge that other than game, and a small
proportion of expensive imported foods, the lord of the manor ATE EXACTLY THE
SAME FOODS THE REST OF THE PEOPLE ATE most of the time.  This is for the very
simple reason that the food they ate were a percentage of the crops grown by
their people.  "Tax" accounts of what the serfs brought their lords document
this part of the feudal arrangement.  The main difference would be that more
time and care were devoted to the preparation of foods for their tables and
expensive ingredients could be used more lavishly.  Royal wedding and
coronation feasts were the exception, not the rule.

~~Minna Gantz  <KALLYR at aol.com> 
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