SC - Fw: [CALONTIR] Bread

[Robin Carroll-Mann]

"J Cowan" <domnaill60 at HOTMAIL.COM> said:
> I am taking a class in Early European Civ at school, Pittsburg State
> here in Bois D'Arc, and keep coming across the fact that through the
> cultures in ancient through modern times that bread and cereal grain
> products were one of the basic parts of everyones diet. I was wondering
> if anyone could give me some feed back on how I might use this in a
> paper for the class. Anyone know of any books on the subject that 
> could be used?

_English Bread and Yeast Cookery_ by Elizabeth David has a lot of 
historical background in it.

_Food and Drink in Britain_ by C Anne Wilson has a chapter on bread, 
cakes, and pastry.

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.  The one constant was bread.  The Earl and the Countess 
got 2 loaves of the finest white bread, accompanied by more bread 
sliced into trenchers, plus wine, and fish or meat, according to the 
season.  The gentlemen ushers got coarser "household" bread, beer, 
and boiled beef or salt fish.  The stable boys got household bread and 
beer.

HTH

  
Lady Brighid ni Chiarain
Settmour Swamp, East (NJ)
mka Robin Carroll-Mann
harper at idt.net