SC - OOP-Black Bread Recipe

[Diana L Skaggs]

Elizabeth wrote:
> 
> bread was. I remember that Chiquart, after going through in detail
> the meats, spices, eggs, dried fruit, etc., needed for his
> prospective feast, says rather dismissively:
> 
> "And so that the workers are not idle, and so that they do not lack
> for anything, there should be delivered funds in great abundance to
> the said kitchen masters to get salt, pot-vegetables and other
> necessary things which might be needed, which do not occur to me at
> present."

Taillevent says pretty much the same thing, IIRC, regarding the simple
[vegetable] pottages which, he says, any housewife knows how to make and
which need not concern us here. Le Menagier does include some recipes
for these, though. I guess his bride wasn't just any housewife.

Adamantius
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