[Sca-cooks] online glossary

[Olwen the Odd]

> >
> >> 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

That looks just like the pasta drying rack I used to use.  I would imagine
it to look something more like woven like the fence in the Rue picture.
Sort of like a cooling rack type thing except made out of natural fibers.
Olwen
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