[Sca-cooks] Butter

[Pixel, Queen of Cats]

On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, Decker, Terry D. wrote:

>
> These represent fringe elements, either geographically or temporally, of the
> Medieval and Renaissance world.  We could not find evidence of butter being
> used in mainstream Europe during most of the SCA period.  The quote from
> Urbanus magnus helps fill in that gap.
>
Isn't there some latish-period reference from a traveller talking about
English children being given bread smeared with butter "in the Flemish
fashion" or something like that?

Margaret FitzWilliam