[Sca-cooks] Drachma Weight

[Terry Decker]

The Steward might have directed the expenditure, but the measurements would
have been done by and accounts would have been kept by a clerk (Clerk of the
Wardrobe, Clerk of the Privy Purse, etc.) as a check on the Steward.

Bear

>That's the thought that I had as well.  If they were keeping a close
>accounting of everything bought and then used, the Steward would have been
>the one with the scales, account books, and supplies.
>In a household without such a strict compliance to the 'Order of Things'™,
>the cook taking the bag and a spoon to measure out what they knew to be the
>Master's taste makes much more sense.
>It would depend on the circumstance, as with everything.
>Christianna
>more likely to spoon by eye than measure for strict compliance