SC - trencher history guesses

[Laura C Minnick]

On Mon, 1 Feb 1999 snowfire at mail.snet.net wrote:

> Has the anyone in the SCA ever done a feast using trenchers?
> 
> Elysant

Elysant,
	I did, July '97, at An Tir West War. TRM's of the West and four
other friends. It was my try to see if I could do it- tablecloths up. I
admit that I cheated a little and used my bread machine, being somewhat
streed of time and space. The R2D2 unit (our nickname for it) produced
hunks of bread that made 6" sq. slices. I then laid them in the attic
space off the bedroom to dry a bit. My daughter and her friend didn't get
it when I was laughing my head off at sending them into the garret to
scramble after dry crusts of bread ;-) Anyway, I think they made fine
little plates. Just big enough for a nice portion of each course. They
were dry enough that they soaked up excess and didn't leak through. Only
thing I would do different, if I had to do over, would be to figure out
why the top of the bread kept sinking (WWheat, not white), which cut down
on the amount of trencher slices I could get out of one batch, and maybe
to figure out a way to pop the beater-bar thing out between the last knead
and the baking time, also because the bar ruined at least 1" worth of
otherwise good bread. But I really liked doing the bread thing as opposed
to using plates. Fewer dishes, general puissance. I thought it was cool,
at least.

'Lainie
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Laura C. Minnick
University of Oregon
Department of English
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"Libraries have been the death of many great men, particularly the
Bodleian."
	Humfrey Wanley, c. 1731




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