SC - Breakfasts

[david friedman]

Cairistiona asks:
>
>Does anyone have any clues as to real documentation of this stuff?

To quote a post of Lady Bridhid's from about a year ago:

> I have some pages photocopied out of _The Northumberland Household
> Book_, which contains the household records of an English noble
> establishment from 1512.  It details what various members of the
> household were given for breakfast on fish and flesh days.  Here are
> a few details, paraphrased.
>
> Breakfasts in Lent:
>
> My Lord and My Lady -- a loaf of bread in trenchers, 2 manchets, a
> quart of beer, a quart of wine, 2 pieces of saltfish, 6 "baconn'd"
> herrings, 4 white herrings or a dish of sproits [sprats?]
>
> My Lord Percy and Master Thomas Percy -- half a loaf of household
> bread, a manchet, a potell of beer, a dish of butter, a piece of
> saltfish, a dish of sproits or white herring
>
> My Lord's clerks -- a loaf of bread, a potell of beer, 2 pieces of
> saltfish
>
> Breakfasts on flesh days:
>
> My Lord and My Lady -- a loaf of bread in trenchers, 2 manchets, a
> quart of beer, a quart of wine, half a "chyne" of mutton or a "chyne"
> of boiled beef
>
> My Lord Percy and Master Thomas Percy -- half a loaf of household
> bread, a manchet, a potell of beer, a chicken or 3 boiled mutton
> bones
>
> My Lord's clerks -- a loaf of bread, a potell of beer, a piece of
> boiled beef
>
> I haven't listed all the breakfasts for the different ranks.
> Obviously, the higher up, the more items on the menu.  Beer and
> bread (of varying quality) are the basics that *always* appear.  The
> stable hands, year round, got beer and household (ie. coarse) bread,
> and nothing else.
>
> Lady Brighid ni Chiarain of Tethba
> Barony of Settmour Swamp, East Kingdom
> mka Robin Carroll-Mann *** harper @ idt.net

Elizabeth/Betty Cook


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