[Sca-cooks] online glossary

[Pixel, Queen of Cats]

On Thu, 31 May 2001, Cindy M. Renfrow wrote:

>
> >> maslin
> >
> >A utility bread, typically made from mixed grains such as wheat plus
> >rye.  OED.  Also spelt meslin.
>
> I don't suppose anyone's run across a recipe or a grain bill for maslin/meslin?
>
Heh. Again, from Dyer, who is still in my briefcase:

p. 57, maslin used for trenchers, citation is from G. H. Holley, "The
earliest roll of household accounts in the muniment room at Hunstanton for
the second year of Edward III (1328)", /Norfolk Archaeology, 21 (1920-2),
77-96; Norfolk R. O., N.H.8.

pp 153-4, maslin in maintenance agreements. That quote I provided about
drinking water, references maslin and drage. Maslin is mentioned
separately from wheat or rye

p 206, a quarter of maslin referenced in a tax assesment for Richard le
Barbur

Dyer defines maslin as mixed wheat and rye, with no specifics about how it
was mixed.

Margaret FitzWilliam

PS--It's not that odd that I have Dyer with me--I still have _Land, Law,
and Lordship in Anglo-Norman England_ in the front seat of the car,
waiting for me to get back to it. ;-)