[Sca-cooks] More eating of fresh fruit evidence

[Stefan li Rous]

In glancing through George Lang's _Cuisine of Hungary_ I saw this.

On page 10:
"One of the earliest records of housekeeping of a monastery is the
thirtteenth-century manuscript from the monastery of Pannonhalma,
which tells among other things, that they had thirty-six cooks
preparing the daily meals.  From the daily expenditures we can see
that the greatest expense was for sturgeon and other fish; there was
no meal without fresh fruit, honey, wine and barley ale."

I'm not sure how we know that the fresh fruit was eaten that way
and not just bought that way, though.
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THLord Stefan li Rous    Barony of Bryn Gwlad    Kingdom of Ansteorra
   Mark S. Harris            Austin, Texas          stefan at texas.net
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