Thanks and Breakfast question, was Re:SC - What would you do?

[Jenne Heise]

> I gather the original question was about period breakfasts. To the 
> best of my knowledge, coffee isn't period in Europe, unless you count 
> the European part of the Ottoman Empire at the very tail end of our 
> period. And I doubt that anything very much like standard modern 
> coffee is period anywhere.

Actually, the question was about period foods that could plausibly be
served at an SCA event breakfast. The fact that in period breakfasting at
the times we think of as 'breakfast' time means that I'm not looking
for 'foods that were eaten for breakfast in period' specifically.
 
Of course, I will have to have someone make coffee, lest I get crucified.
*shrug* But I would like to serve period _foods_ at least.

> Do you know which of the cereals you list correspond reasonably 
> closely to things eaten in period? Rolled oat are, I think, a 19th 
> century invention.

Does anyone have a source for period-type oat meal to make period oat meal
porridge? 

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