SC - trencher history guesses

[Marilyn Traber]

Well, when things got a bit poor around here, I would make a good 1 lb loaf ffor
each of us a day for dinner, which was soup. that way we made a small amount of
meat and veggies that would be 1 persons dinner do for 3, with bread doing the
major filling up of the hunger, and oatmeal or cream of wheat[gruel] being the
other meal. I could see a farmer type doing for a meal 1 lb bread, small ale
made of 1 cup of grain for a pint to drink and a soup with another cup of grain
in it per serving, which if you take the weight of unground grain, 2 cups of red
wheat come to just under a pound[well, kitchen scale and a bag of wheat, what
can i say...]
margali

LYN M PARKINSON wrote:

> >>In the towns, the average bread use was about 2 pound per person a
> day.<<
>
> Bear, is this a scribal error?  I am one of the biggest bread eaters I
> know and I don't come close to that amount.  Maybe 2 pounds per week.  I
> love bread with gravy, or honey, or jam, or soup, or....
>
> Regards,
>
> Allison
> allilyn at juno.com, Barony Marche of the Debatable Lands, Pittsburgh, PA
> Kingdom of Aethelmearc
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