[Sca-cooks] Re: buttered bread

[Ruth Tannahill]

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> Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 23:40:05 -0600
> From: Stefan li Rous <StefanliRous at austin.rr.com>
> Subject: [Sca-cooks] bread and butter
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> Gunthar commented and asked a number of questions:
>> The only things I recall being put out with bread were salt and
>> mustards. Basically
>> putting out the condiments. I vaguely recall hearing of a document
>> which
>> referred
>> to people putting butter on bread but this was mentioned with the same
>> kind
>> of superior attitude as a Bostonite seeing an Arkansas hillbilly family
>> smearing bacon fat on corn pone.
>>
>> <snip of various questions>
>>
>> Geez....I'm beginning to sound like Stefan here.
> Er, maybe. But Stefan in this case is going to point to this file in
> the Florilegium where various period quotes are given about serving
> butter on bread, mostly in northern, rather than southern Europe. It
> can still be argued whether some of this is eating bread with butter,
> compared to spreading the butter on the bread and eating it. Or even if
> bread was eaten with butter spread on it, just how common this was.
> butter-msg       (130K)  9/ 9/04    Period butter. Making butter.
> Butter churns.
> http://www.florilegium.org/files/FOOD/butter-msg.html
>
> Stefan
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> THLord Stefan li Rous    Barony of Bryn Gwlad    Kingdom of Ansteorra
>    Mark S. Harris           Austin, Texas
> StefanliRous at austin.rr.com
> **** See Stefan's Florilegium files at:  http://www.florilegium.org ****

>From Ann Hagen, "A Handbook of Anglo-Saxon Food: Processing and 
Consumption," Norfolk, England: Anglo-Saxon Books 1992, pp. 18-19. "....The 
author of 'Leechdoms' also considered bread a strengthing food....The 
standard meal was a loaf and something to eat with it. Possibly bread was 
already being eaten with butter as one of the 'accompaniments': 'Then give 
barley bread and pure new butter to the invalid to eat' (tham mannum sceal 
sellan aegra to suppane, beren bread, slaen niwe buteran)."

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