[Sca-cooks]minor correction in re Tofi
Carol Smith
Eskesmith at hotmail.com
Thu Nov 24 20:01:30 PST 2005
Minor point of fact, Master A:
Tofi, although once apprenticed to an Eastern (garb) Laurel, was Baron of Barony-Marche Debatable Lands of AEthermark, not of he East. (Pittsburgh left the Eastrealm a LOOONG time ago...)
His breakfast beer is downright chewy...
Regards,
Brekke
----- Original Message -----
From: Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius<mailto:adamantius.magister at verizon.net>
To: Cooks within the SCA<mailto:sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 24, 2005 10:41 AM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Binge drinking
On Nov 24, 2005, at 10:00 AM, Terry Decker wrote:
> No, in the Middle Ages beer (or small beer) constituted about one
> third of the caloric intake in the beer drinking regions of Europe
> according to some of the economic studies. From a little more
> modern study, in terms of vitamins and calories, a glass of beer is
> roughly equivalent to a glass of milk except for the calcium.
>
> Bear
I can pretty much second the above. There's been some math done by
people like Baron Tofi (I forget the rest of his name, but he is or
was Baron of the Debatable Lands in the East, and a laurel for
brewing), and Master Ateno of Annun Ridge, working with the numbers
quoted from the various Assizes pertaining to ale. These show prices
and profit margins, and by some extrapolation they were able to
figure out how much malt goes into X amount of beer, and therefore
either how alcoholic it was, or at least its starting specific
gravity, even if the end result of the mash was dextrins rather than
fermentable sugars. We can get to a reasonably close approximation of
the caloric values of ordinary, strong, and small ales. Things might
differ somewhat for German beers (they tended to be mashed a little
differently, I believe), but then the quotes about "liquid bread" are
German...
Adamantius
>
>> A program I saw while in England recently mentioned that the
>> working poor
>> began to suffer vitamin deficiencies when the tee-totalers and tea
>> drinkers
>> discouraged them drinking their normal ration of beer. I've
>> certainly seen
>> beer referred to as "liquid bread".
>>
>> Am I out in the fantasy dark ages?
>>
>> Regina
>
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