[Sca-cooks] what did they do with dirty tableware?

[jenne at fiedlerfamily.net]

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> Stefan! Bad! No biscuit! Don't wipe your knife on the tablecloth- on your
> napkin maybe, but nor the tablecloth. Nor do you wipe your face on the
> tablecloth.
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> I thought napkins were a post-period development. Let's assume
> a 14th Century feast here.

It doesn't look like napkins/towels to go accross the diners laps are
postperiod, they are definitely present in the 16th c. manners texts.

Besides, you wipe you fingers and your utensils on your BREAD, of course!

-- Jadwiga Zajaczkowa
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"Are you finished? If you're finished, you'll have to put down the spoon."