[Sca-cooks] Morning Food

[ruadh]

'small brydes' & 'small breads' & 'the halibut' ....
Sound like a mid-eastern feast:  too many un-paid guests, and Autocrated by
a woodwright [ who seems to keep White doves where-ever he goes] and some
fishermen on the kitchen crew. I think it's most recent documentation was
recently published by Gideon. Ru

----- Original Message -----
> > Morning Food by jenne at fiedlerfamily.net
> > > Um. I've seen the translation of 'small birds' for 'small brydes' in
> > > Maggie Black's medieval cooking, but since she also perpetrated 'clove
> > > gilofre' as 'gilded cloves' I'm wondering if 'small brydes' couldn't
also
> > > be small breads?

> Gretchen M Beck wrote
> > I doubt it -- Bryd is standard old/middle English for bird. Some
examples:
>
From: "Laura C. Minnick" <lcm at efn.org>
> Margaret is right on this- the variations I've seen for for are birde,
> byrd, byrde, etc. 'Bryd' as bread would require substitution of y for e
> or ea, and it doesn't work linguistically. Variants I've seen for bread
> include bred and brede. I think Maggie Black's gilofre/gilded is an
> inexcusable brain-fart on her part.
>
> Just two pence from someone who reads Middle English for the halibut,
>
> 'Lainie
>