[Sca-cooks] Re: easy bread recipe?

[Lonnie D. Harvel]

Stefan li Rous wrote:

> Any particular reason you are wanting a bread recipe using oats? I  
> really seems like non-wheat, non-white bread was really looked down  
> upon in the later Middle Ages and not something you would serve at a  
> dinner for nobleman. Although perhaps this wasn't the case in Anglo- 
> Saxon era England.

Good question. I have been wondering the same myself. My mundane 
perception is always dark hearty breads in the dim smoky feast-hall of 
the dark ages. Recently, it seems to me that you are correct, white 
breads would have been preferred. It does look like oats were used in 
bread making in that period. However, I don't know if it would have been 
used in a feast bread. A fine wheat bread? (I'll just go grab a few 
dozen loaves of Iron Kids bread... :) )

Aoghann