SC - Plastic Ware

[Bronwynmgn at aol.com]

In a message dated 4/17/2000 2:43:35 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
stefan at texas.net writes:

<< The problem with making trenchers out of modern bread slices is that they
 are actually a little too small and a little too thin. There are some
 pretty good descriptions of how to carve trencher loaves into trenchers
 in the period literature. Also, the bread in trenchers was a little
 different from the normal "good" medieval bread as well as being
 several days old. >>


What I was planning on doing was using the bread machine to make a 100% whole 
wheat loaf (I haven't yet found a 100% whole wheat bread that I felt was 
really edible...), cut that to the appropriate size and shape, and let those 
dry for trenchers. 
My bread machine does 1.5-2 lb normal shaped loaves (the pan is a loaf pan 
with knead bars, basically), so I should be able to get a fair number of 
trencher slices from one loaf.

Brangwayna Morgan