SC - Recipes with Beer and Ale?
cclark@vicon.net
cclark at vicon.net
Thu Nov 18 21:44:33 PST 1999
Someone was just looking for a reference to horse-bread. I am packing to
go to an event, and it is after midnight, so I ripped off the page for
November the 18th, and lo, on the 19th, the Forgotten English Calendar
has this:
"horse-bread
A peculiar sort of bread made for feeding horses"
-Robert Nares's 'Glossary of the Works of English Authors', 1859
"Take two bushels of good clean beans and one bushel of wheat, and grind
them together. Then, through a fine [sieve], bolt out the quantity of
two pecks of pure meal, and bake it in two or three loaves by itself.
The rest sift through a meal sieve and knead it with water and good store
of barme [yeast]. And so, bake it in breat loaves and with the coarser
bread feed your horse in his rest."
-Gervase Markham's 'Country Contentments', 1615
St. Elizabeth's Day, Patron Saint of Bakers
A very good day for cooks (and horses!)
Christianna
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