SC - Koge Bog (was: Nerve Bisquits???)

[Oughton, Karin (GEIS, Tirlan)]

Oops!  That will teach me to check my documentation before I report 
someone else's findings!  Tusser's poem 'The Good Housewife'  reads 
'Call servants to breakfast, by day star appear/ a snatch to wake 
fellows, but tarry not here./  Let huswife be carver, let pottage be 
eat,/ a dishful each one with a morsel of meat.'  
Elizabeth BUrton herself says (completely unsubstantiated) that 
artisans  ate a breakfast of 'bread, salt herring, 
cold meat, pottage, cheese and ale'.  I suppose the fish would be 
more important in fast days. 
She also says that Queen Elizabeth's breakfast was 'manchet, ale, 
beer, wine and a good pottage made of mutton or beef' (again 
unsupported).

I wish I could remember where the salt fish and pottage reference was 
then.

Does anyone have any clues as to real documentation of this stuff?

Cairistiona
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