SC - Crown Touney/Queen's Tea

[Olwen the Odd]

On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, Mark S. Harris wrote:
> Ariann gave a referance:
> > _Eating the Plates: A Pilgrim Book of Food and Manners_, by Lucille Recht
> > Penner, Macmillan, 1991. ISBN: 0-02-770901-9
> 
> Interesting. Is this a referance to the "Pilgrims" using bread trenchers?

Apparently, _Eating the Plates_ was written for children, so the
references are geared toward the young audience.  The ship's biscuits were
plate-sized, disks that were pre-baked before the voyage, so the author
makes a joke that eating the ship's hard, stale biscuits is like eating
the plates (p10). The author goes on to explain about weevils in the
biscuits, mold on the cheese, etc during the crossing.

The book is a mix of fact and fiction.  The book mentions they raided an
Indian cornfield and made off with the corn, because they were hungry.
Then the book states the cinnamon, cloves, ginger, etc were used to cover
up the bad flavour of rotted food.  The Indian pudding and the succotash
recipes looks authentic, but the red pickled egg recipe contains red
pepper.  Read the book with a grain of salt. <G>

HTH

Ariann