SC - questions

[CBlackwill at aol.com]

In a message dated 6/13/00 8:39:17 PM Pacific Daylight Time, LrdRas at aol.com 
writes:

> 
>  Documentation, please? Hunting manuscripts give the numbers of small birds 
>  netted as being in the thousands, IIRC.

Are these Hunting manuscripts directly correlated to a pending banquet, or 
may we assume the "thousands" of birds netted were for general consumption, 
and an attempt to catch enough to tide the manor house over until the next 
hunt?  I cannot imagine anyone, medieval or not, serving "thousands" of birds 
at a banquet, unless there were "thousands" of attendees...

I believe the "3 ounces of thrush in porre" was meant simply to illustrate 
the point that, while the number of dishes served at a banquet were, to our 
modern sensibilities, staggering, there is very little direct documentation 
to illuminate how "much" of each dish was served.  

Balthazar of Blackmoor

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