[Sca-cooks] Better cooking through Forensic Accountancy

[Terry Decker]

Not the pantry, the wardrobe, which is where the accounts were kept.
Pantler, butler and cook submitted their expenses to the clerk of the
wardrobe (or exchequer or privy purse or etc., depending on the household
organization).

Examining the guild and city records provide a look at the general
condition, which household accounts can't provide.

Bear

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It's probably worth a look, but for questions like "how much is some" I
think you really need to be looking at the level of the pantry, not the city
corporation ... the problem is, of course, that the majority of historians
do not work at that level, and the ones that do tend to provide summaries.

Anton