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

[jenne at fiedlerfamily.net]

> I'm looking at the dust jacket and frontpiece of _Dining with William
> Shakespeare_.  It's a wedding scene detail from "The Life of Sir Henry
> Unton (1557 - 1596)".  The men in the painting have their napkins on their
> left shoulder or on their left forearm.  The ladies at each end of the
> table have their napkins in their lap.

Hm. In the serving manners books, we are directed (we being the servers)
to carry a towel (ie. napkin like object) across the arms/shoulder) and to
put a separate towel/napkin across the laps of the dinner guests extending
from the edge of the table. I'll try to remember to look up WHICH serving
book says that tomorrow.

-- Jadwiga Zajaczkowa
jenne at fiedlerfamily.net OR jenne at tulgey.browser.net OR jahb at lehigh.edu
"Are you finished? If you're finished, you'll have to put down the spoon."