[Sca-cooks] Feast Ambience

[Laura C. Minnick]

At 11:07 AM 7/31/02 -0400, you wrote:
>At our baronial schola this spring, I taught a class on medieval
>table manners.  One of the topics I included was some hands-on
>practice in handwashing.  I got the Baroness's permission in
>advance*,
<snip>
>* Though she pretended to be miffed when I told her that she did
>not rate having her wash-water tasted for poison.  (Earl/Countess
>and above)

Trying to remember who, and it's not coming- but there was an incident
where a nobleman had a fatal heart attack/stroke while having his hands
washed. The horrified ewerer immediately drank the basin full of water to
allay any suspicion of poison...

'Lainie
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