SC - Re: sca-cooks V1 #2564
LrdRas@aol.com
LrdRas at aol.com
Tue Sep 5 17:24:20 PDT 2000
And it came to pass on 5 Sep 00,, that Jenne Heise wrote:
> > The Northumberland Household Book (c. 1512) has a whole section
on what
> > everyone ate for breakfast, from the Earl and his family down to the
> > stable boys.
> Hm. I'd like more information about this. This is the one reference I've
> seen to period 'breakfast'-- I was under the impression that one did not
> break the fast until 11:00 or so.. more like lunch.
>
> Jadwiga Zajaczkowa, mka Jennifer Heise jenne at tulgey.browser.net
> disclaimer: i speak for no-one and no-one speaks for me.
I only have a few pages photocopied out of the book, which I got when
researching trenchers. It clearly uses the term "breakfast", but does
not say at what hour it was eaten.
Lady Brighid ni Chiarain
Settmour Swamp, East (NJ)
mka Robin Carroll-Mann
harper at idt.net
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