[Sca-cooks] Bisket bread, and weights and measures

[Pixel, Goddess and Queen]

On Tue, 27 Aug 2002, Kirrily Robert wrote:

> Two questions:
>
> 1. Does anyone have any recipes for bisket bread, OTHER THAN the
> ones in the following cookbooks (which I already have):
>
> Thomas Dawson, Good Huswife's Jewell
> Hugh Plat, Delights for Ladies
> Gervase Markham, The English Huswife
> Elinor Fettiplace's Receipt Book (complete version)
>
> 2. Does anyone have a source which provides modern (metric, preferably)
> equivalents for Elizabethan weights including the pound, peck and ounce?
> If I can't find anything, I'll just use modern pounds and ounces, but I
> would rather know the period measures.
> http://www.meridies.org/as/dmir/Brewing&Vintning/slpebmod.html gives a
> good list of books on the subject, but I don't have any of them.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Katherine


I have both the Zupko books he mentions--the Dictionary and the History. I
can check when I get home, and maybe even post if I can get to the
computer.

Margaret