SC - Horse Bread

[Christine A Seelye-King]

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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