SC - Ginger
Arne Jerx
arnejerx at post3.tele.dk
Sun Dec 31 02:36:52 PST 2000
Hello the List!
I've finally caught up!
Food! Breakfast! What about breakfast! (To quote Tim Severin)
Some time back I started preparing a paper on breakfast - I wonder where it
got to? From memory - Thomas Peacham (late Elizabethan, wrote in old age in
early Stuart period) talks of - shocking! - spoiled children being given
wine caudles or white bread with almond butter. I have a Flemish recipe for
almond butter, which I will post as soon as I find it, unless someone else
beats me to it.
Thomas Tusser talks (this is really straining the memory) of frumenty and
salt meat. Check the Floriwhatsit; I know that post was in there.
Yes, there is lots of stuff from the Ingatestone Hall records. mainly brown
and white bread, salt fish, small beer/ale, ham/cold roast meat, chicken.
One totally unsubstantiated source (Elizabeth Taylor - not the same, I
trust) said QE1 had chicken broth for breakfast.
Personally I'd serve porridge, bread, almond butter, real butter,
coldhamcoldtonguecoldturkey (sorry Kenneth Grahame) and I'd seriously
consider doing a caudle (or a curdle in my case).
Must dash, but will look at home for that paper.
Cairistiona
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