[Sca-cooks] Yet another German Feast

[Jadwiga Zajaczkowa / Jenne Heise]

> >Bread, butter, marinated vegetables as an appetizer
> 
> I know these are almost traditional SCA openings with bread and butter
> is there any history of such? One thing try to deliberately do is avoiding
> bread and butter. But, I do agree that people expect it and that with
> the veggies is a good appetite blunter.

Bread, yes, butter, no.
We went through a period of people limiting the amount of bread for 
feasts because they felt it wasn't documented, but all the records 
definitely show bread being served at table, and generally, by the 
pantler, as the first thing put on the table. (see the courtesy 
books...)

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