[Sca-cooks] Cooking period foods resembling modern foods

[Huette von Ahrens]

The concept of eating a little bread for
breakfast, as you mention, is not so different
from the continental breakfast still offered
today.  I have not been able to find precisely
when the Dutch served their pancakes and waffles.
I have found many paintings of them making and
eating such, but it is not clear to me what time
of day it is in the paintings.  The only
illustration that might gives me a hint is one
called "Twelfth Night Feast", which has a plate 
of waffles amongst all the other offerings.  
There is also a lit candle in the drawing, so I
guess that one could presume it was at night.
However, pancakes and waffles are bread products
and it wouldn't be too far a leap to say that 
they could be the Dutch equivalent of a little
bread for breakfast.  Just don't include maple
syrup.

In keeping with the subject line, I suppose you
could buy frozen pancakes and waffles from the
store, but IMHO they are dreadful and akin to
eating warm cardboard with maple syrup. 

Huette 

--- Terry Decker <t.d.decker at worldnet.att.net>
wrote:
> When it was eaten breakfast appears to have
> been a little bread and beer (or
> wine) to keep hunger at bay until lunch. 
> Coffee, tea and cocoa began
> replacing beer during the 17th Century.  The
> "petit dejune" (if I remember
> the spelling correctly) of selected breads,
> pastries, butter and jams served
> with coffee, tea or cocoa and occasionally side
> meat may be an evolution of
> the medieval breakfast.
> 
> Cold pizza and warm beer would probably fit
> right into the medieval idea of
> breakfast.
> 
> Bear
> 
> 
> >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
> 
> 
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