[Sca-cooks] online glossary

[Cindy M. Renfrow]

>At 18:24 +0200 2001-06-05, Cindy M. Renfrow wrote:
>
>> hurdle -
>> (A Closet for Ladies and Gentlewomen, 1636) - To make Prince-bisket
>> bread... and dry them againe upon a hurdle of Wicker...
>
>Originally a fence section: think weaving, uprights (warp) with long
>flexible sticks woven between them, alternating above and below (weft).
>Presumably here made in a smaller size as a bread rack.
>

Like this, or more closely woven, do you think?

http://www.godecookery.com/tacuin/tacuin42.htm

Cindy