SC - Perforated or covered vessel?

[Cindy Renfrow]

Sorry!  Should have said, in the *new edition*...  This illustration is not
in the old edition.

Cindy

>>>In Take 1000 Eggs, vol. 2, p. 447, there is an illustration from the
>Lutrell Psalter (c. 1340) showing several dishes being prepared for
>service.  The middle figure is holding a tall thin vessel that may be a
>spice shaker.<<
>
>
>I was robbed!  Only got 381 pp!
>
>
>The shaker does make sense--the holed vessel, then, refers only to the
>saffron.  That would put golden specks over the surface of the pudding
>and would be quite pretty.  Thanks, Cindy!  Didn't realize that spice
>shakers were quite so early--I picture the cook with his leather bags and
>sensitive fingers!
>
>
>Regards,
>
>Allison
>allilyn at juno.com, Barony Marche of the Debatable Lands, Pittsburgh, PA
>Kingdom of Aethelmearc
>


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