FW: [Sca-cooks] Paper twists of spice (Was spice storage)

[Nancy Kiel]

Also, if it's post-printing press, "scrap" paper (old news) might be more available.  With the caveats that a)it's a movie and b)it's set later than SCA period, the Gerard Depardieu version of "cyrano de Bergerac" shows pastries being wrapped up in sheets of newsprint.

  "Until the sixteenth century, buying and trading were done mainly in
  bulk.  There was little need for wrapping or packaging.  Customers
  provided their own containers, such as baskets, jugs, or bowls.  But as
  towns and cities grew, goods could be purchased in smaller quantities
  as they were needed, and it was convenient to do shopping more
  frequently.  Therefore, items such as grain, beans, buttons, and
  needles required some kind of wrapping or packaging to contain these
  smaller quantities.

  Bookstores often took manuscripts that failed to sell as reading
  materials and sold them to merchants as scraps for wrapping paper.  The
  paper was twisted into a cone and folded up at the bottom.  This became
  the first paper bag.  Soon paper makers also discovered that they could
  use the course settlings from the bottom of their vats to make a
  low-quality wrapping paper."

  http://silosandsmokestacks.org/resources/FieldTripGuide/shopping_bag_history<http://silosandsmokestacks.org/resources/FieldTripGuide/shopping_bag_history>
  _project.htm
   (with the usual caveat for internet info)
  Tara