SC - Breakfast
LrdRas@aol.com
LrdRas at aol.com
Sat Feb 6 21:39:50 PST 1999
>
>I have read that it was considered rude to eat your trencher at the big
fancy feasts.
>So, some people must have eaten them for it to be talked about. The
beggars ate the
>trenchers. And some people did eat them the next day dipped in wine.
Why would you
>not eat the lovely bit of bread that just soaked up the juices of your
meat? My guess?
>Because you needed to save room of the more expensive treats to come,
and to prove you
>had enough to eat without eating your trencher. (status symbol) I
believe the medieval
>surfs and beggars and working classes would have all eaten their
trenchers without a
>second thought.
>
>So, I think that not eating the bread under your food is an aberration,
not the norm,
>in the long history of food. I will go a step farther to say, I even
think that it is
>an aberration for the medieval times as well, because more people than
not, would have
>been to poor to throw away that bread.
>
> I am ready for your
slings and
>arrows.
>
>
Helen
Well, the rich folks did have sippets and soppes, so they could give the
trencher away, probably as you said, to prove they could afford it.
Bonne
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