SC - Breakfast

[LrdRas@aol.com]

>
>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


______________________________________________________
Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
============================================================================

To be removed from the SCA-Cooks mailing list, please send a message to
Majordomo at Ansteorra.ORG with the message body of "unsubscribe SCA-Cooks".

============================================================================