SC - Breakfasts
Ian van Tets
ivantets at botzoo.uct.ac.za
Thu Jan 28 11:20:42 PST 1999
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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