[Sca-cooks] Spanish seafaring food
Jeff Gedney
Gedney1 at iconn.net
Wed Jun 19 09:36:38 PDT 2002
Oh good lord...
This is wonderful. May I cross post it to the SCA-Nautical List?
We love stuff like this
Brandu
> -----Original Message-----
> From: sca-cooks-admin at ansteorra.org
> [mailto:sca-cooks-admin at ansteorra.org]On Behalf Of Robin Carroll-Mann
> Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2002 12:00 PM
> To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
> Subject: [Sca-cooks] Spanish seafaring food
>
>
> I was browsing through LIBRO (Library of Iberian Resources Online) at
> http://libro.uca.edu and I came across an interesting tidbit.
> The following is
> from _Consulate of the Sea and Related Documents_, which is a 15th
> century compilation of laws, regulations, and customs
> governing merchant
> shipping.
> http://libro.uca.edu/consulate/index.htm
>
> The section below deals with food for sailors:
>
> 145-Food Which Must Be Provided for the Sailors by the Patron
> To continue: Every patron of a vessel or a boat which has a deck must
> provide the following food for the whole crew: Meat three times per
> week. This means on Sunday, Tuesday, and on Thursday. On the other
> days of the week he shall provide soup for them,{HYPERLINK \l
> "N_7_"} in addition to the bread
> given the crew each evening. Also three times per week, in the morning
> and in the evening he shall provide them with wine. To supplement the
> bread ration they should be given cheese or onions or sardines or other
> kind of fish.
> In addition, the master of a vessel is required to issue
> rations of wine, if it
> will not cost him more than three and one-half besants. If he procures
> raisins or even figs, he should make wine; if he should not be
> able to get
> either figs or raisins or if they cost more than thirty
> milliares per thousand
> rolls, the master will not be required to issue wine rations.
> Furthermore, the patron shall double the rations of the crew
> on all official
> holy days. Finally, he shall employ proper personnel to
> prepare the food
> for the crew.
> -----------------------
>
>
> Brighid ni Chiarain *** mka Robin Carroll-Mann
> Barony of Settmour Swamp, East Kingdom
> rcmann4 at earthlink.net
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