SC - food at re-enactment group
Yeldham, Caroline S
csy20688 at GlaxoWellcome.co.uk
Fri May 15 01:56:49 PDT 1998
Stefan asked some questions:
> Caroline said:
>
> >*just to explain, given that I'm not prepared to get up at dawn and we
> want
> >to show cooking to the general public, we usually have the following:
>
> >Breakfast 8 - 9 cooked - bacon, eggs, sausages, bread (tea and
> > coffee - it is out of public hours)
> >Mid-day 12 - 1 cold meat, cheese, bread, maybe sod eggs or
> fritters
>
Short for sodden eggs (and because it amuses the public*) - boiled
eggs, sometimes with mustard sauce, sometimes stuffed.
> >Dinner 4 - 5 main meal, pottage, roast meats, civey, worts,
> > salad, sweet dishes
>
Civey or stew - ie a meat pottage of some kind. Worts or pot-herbs
- - vegetables of some kind. As far as I can tell the term 'vegetable' wasn't
used in period, but these were.
Caroline
* it may not be the case in the States, but in the UK 'sod' is a
fairly mild swear word
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