SC - Breakfasts

[david friedman]

At 7:13 PM -0500 11/18/98, Philip & Susan Troy wrote:
>
>Breakfast for events can be difficult when trying to reconcile proper
>medieval behavior and modern palates. I have no problem with bread and
>ale (ale being a cool but not cold, malty-tasting, not-especially-fizzy
>low-alcohol beverage) of a morning, with perhaps a nice herring to go
>with it, but not everyone is like me. Apart from bread and perhaps, in
>households without ovens, porridge of some kind (although that can smack
>suspiciously of dinner if the period menus are to be believed), possibly
>a bread companion like soft cheese or a fruit cheese, the foods that
>seem most likely to me are the remains of a previous night's roast (you
>sometimes see poultry or game mentioned in connection with breakfast, or
>possibly a piece of boiled bacon). ...

We have at least one early Islamic reference to a Caliph eating the
leftovers from last night's dinner as breakfast.

Elizabeth/Betty Cook


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