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

[Huette von Ahrens]

--- jenne at fiedlerfamily.net wrote:
> > --------
> > 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.
> > --------
> > 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.

Yes.  And in drawings too.
>
> Besides, you wipe you fingers and your utensils on
> your BREAD, of course!

If you are 16th century, trenchers were less used,
hence the napkins/towels.

If you are 14th century, then you wiped your fingers
on your dog. Or so I have heard. :-)

Huette


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