[Sca-cooks] Looking for a bread recipe.

[johnna holloway]

  web.onetel.net.uk/~glb1/ stcross/harvest.gif
or http://web.onetel.net.uk/~glb1/stcross/seasons.htm

As to folklore--
According to  A Dictionary of English Folklore by OUP, the modern 
harvest festivals are a Victorian invention. They are thought by some to 
be a replacement for the earlier harvest suppers where celebrants drank, 
dances, ate, and partied to excess. There's a note there that the idea 
of the "corn spirit" has been discredited and that work needs to be done 
on the topic of harvest suppers, the last sheaf, etc.

Harvest Suppers were also known as Harvest Home, Mell Suppers, Horkey 
Suppers, Kern Suppers, etc. The farmer in this case provided a feast for 
the workers. There's a write-up in Christina Hole's A Dictionary of 
British Folk Customs.

Thomas Tusser includes the harvest in section under the month of August 
in 500 Points of Good Husbandry, 1557, 1573. He does not mention the 
creation of a harvest loaf, although he lists a tithe to the parson.
He does say:
In harvest time, harvest folke, servants and all,
should make altogither good cheere in the halle:
and fill out the black boule of bleith to their song,
and let them be merie all harvest long.

Johnnae llyn Lewis

johnna holloway
>>>> I am looking for a bread recipe. I am told that people would bake a 
>>>> special loaf that was ornate to celebrate the harvest. Any help 
>>>> would be appreciated.snipped
>>>>>>>>>>> LOL, sorry I guess this information would help. English people 
>>>>>>> around  1100 AD. Gerard
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