[Sca-cooks] Re: easy bread recipe?

[Lonnie D. Harvel]

Oh, and also, I think warm bread recently from the oven is magnificent. 
Would that have occured in any of the SCA periods? I get the impression 
the bread arrived sometime during the morning (or afternoon for large 
feasts) from the bakery or bake house.

Lonnie D. Harvel wrote:

> Stefan li Rous wrote:
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>> 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.
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> 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... :) )
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