[Sca-cooks] Re: easy bread recipe?
Lonnie D. Harvel
ldh at ece.gatech.edu
Sat Sep 24 06:46:16 PDT 2005
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:
>
>> 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... :) )
>
>
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