[Sca-cooks] Yet another German Feast

[Jonathan and Rebecca Barber]

> > >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...)

Good information.  Is there anything that would have been put out with them?  I've seen one German feast done with an apple butter instead of regular butter but wasn't sure if that was a documented serving idea or just a good way to get around the regular butter thing (and yummy....)

Ru