[Sca-cooks] Spanish seafaring food

[Jeff Gedney]

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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