SC - Trencher recipe please

[Stefan li Rous]

Muirghen said:
> Unto the list does Muirghen send greetings
> 
> I am looking for a good recipe for trenchers (bread used for stew and =
> such, just in case I have misspelled again).  The notes I have so fare =
> describe the texture and such, but do not give a recipe to make.  Also, =
> there have been comments that this is not a "bread bowl" and I don't =
> want to make  a bread bowl if I don't have to.  So after looking for a =
> month now, I ask, Help.  My library is woefully inadequate to find this =
> yet.

There are a pair of recipes given in this file in the FOOD-BREADS section
of my Florilegium. The period directions for cutting trenchers are also
given and discussed. No, they were not like our modern bread bowls.
trenchers-msg     (32K)  9/15/99    Wooden and bread trenchers. Plates.

If you need more information on various aspects of baking breads than
are detailed in these two recipes, you might want to look at these files,
also in the same section:
bread-msg        (161K) 12/13/99    Medieval breads and grains.
breadmaking-msg  (203K)  7/ 7/00    Period bread recipes and re-creations.

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