SC - finally! A baking success! and re: honey butter

[cclark@vicon.net]

I'm looking through various references on ice, and found some bits
relating to recent threads:

1.  "Boorde also talks of 'bean butter' which was used inLent in place of
real butter.  ...Thomas Cogan, too talks of brown bread and butter as
being a good breakfast for a copuntryman, although fine white manchet
bread, the most expensive form of bread, was usually that recommended for
more gently-bred stomachs. 32."
32. Thomas Cogan. _The House of Health_, London 1584.

Sim, Alison.  Food and Feast in Tudor England. Sutton Publishing Limited,
UK, 1997.  Food and foodways, illustrations, no recipes.  ISBN 0 7509
1476 9. p. 85.

This book also talks about the humours and food.

In kitchen design, she writes that in the 16th C. the kitchen could be
built into the house, in the cellar,  "The support of the outside earth
meant that the kitchen could be given solid stone walls and even a
stone-vaulted ceiling to minimize the risk of a fire spreading to the
rest of the house.  At the same time the grander areas in the house could
be raised away from cold and damp...." p. 25.

"A famous plan of Canterbury Cathedral's water supply executed in the
twelfth century shows a system that does everything from flushing out the
toilets to cooling wine in the cellar." p. 26.

also talks of regular home supply [bucket] and town water
supply--conduits, pipes, etc. and waste water removal and drainage.

This is a useful book, footnoted, illustrated, good bibliography. 
Chapters on: 1. Into: Food and Sopciety in the Sixteenth Century; 2.
Kitchens and Kitchen Equipment; 3. Staffing and Provisioning the Kitchen;
4. Beer and Brewing; 5. Wine; 6. Health and Diet; 7. Tableware; 8. Table
Manners; 9. Feasts, Entertainments and Luxury Food; 10. Banquets.  

Anne-Marie, there's a special name and description of the 3 footed pot
you wanted to find.

Sim, Alison.  Food and Feast in Medieval England. Sutton Publishing
Limited, UK, 1993.  Food and foodways, illustrations, no recipes.  ISBN 0
905 778 25 1.
This is a useful book, footnoted, illustrated, good bibliography. 
Chapters on: 1.Where Food Comes From; 2. Food of the Countryman; 3. Food
of the Town Dweller; 4. Food of the Gentry; 5. Adulteration and
Nutrition; 6. Table Manners; 7. Feasts.

I think the cat is napping on that one.

Regards,
Allison,     allilyn at juno.com


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