Breakfasts (was Re: [Sca-cooks] Cooking period foods resembling modern foods)

[Pixel, Goddess and Queen]

On Fri, 5 Dec 2003, Stefan li Rous wrote:

> But actually we have been doing this for some time in particular
> situations.
> How many folks have served one of the period egg dishes for breakfast
> at an event? I don't think there is evidence of *any* of these dishes
> being specified as a breakfast dish in period. Until late in period,
> breakfast seems to have been frowned upon. So in this case we are
> serving a period recipe *because* it resembles a modern dish that folks
> expect to have at breakfast, not dinner. Many probably would not go for
> feast leftovers in the morning, even though that would probably be the
> more period thing to do. Some would go for this. But then some people
> eat cold pizza and warm beer for breakfast, too. blech.
>
> Stefan

Actually, it was the church who frowned on breakfast, because more than
two meals a day (one on fast days) was gluttony. But a lot of people seem
to have eaten something on arising, even if it was just a piece of bread.
There's a whole bunch of stuff on it in the Flori-thingy.

Margaret