[Sca-cooks] medieval words for breakfast, lunch and dinner

[jenne at fiedlerfamily.net]

> > I know about German breakfsts, but the niggling thought pops into my
> > head, "traditional" from when?
> Again, this was worrying me also. But it does seem like a big jump from
> little or none to these especially if only in the few centuries
> following 1600. If it is a progression than the evidence of this should
> be in the records within our period of study, if they exist and are
> consistant enough. Maybe there was a lot of "The Church rails against
> this, but I'm hungry so I'm going to do it anyway.". Maybe the place to
> look for this stuff is in diaries rather than public writings.

I suspect that the 17th, 18th, and 19th century records hold more about
early-morning/upon-rising breakfasts than do the materials from our
period.

-- Pani Jadwiga Zajaczkowa, Knowledge Pika jenne at fiedlerfamily.net
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