[Sca-cooks] honey butter

[Laura C. Minnick]

Robin Carroll-Mann wrote:
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> On 4 Mar 2002, at 16:41, Laura C. Minnick wrote:
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> > This discussion may well be merely academic, of course. I think we've
> > talked about it before, and noticed the incredible *lack* of any
> > evidence that there was butter on the tables in period...
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> I've recently come across one reference. I've been going through books of
> courtesy, in preparation for a schola class on table manners. In the "Urbanus
> magnus" (c. 1180), the following lines discuss dinners on fast days:
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Cool! First time I've seen that, and I've read the Babee's Book several
times! I guess it's what you are looking for...

'Lainie