Re: [Sca-cooks] El drama del medieval café

[Terry Decker]

With their dirk, like any good Anachronist.

Seriously, Arabic coffee is prepared with the sugar and any spicing added 
during the brewing, so they don't need spoons to stir the coffee.

Bear

> The Arabs had coffee, they had cups, not sure about saucers, and they had 
> sugar. They had spoons for liquids and semi-liquids. They did not use 
> knives or forks. Now at the medieval dinner we are planning we are having 
> a problem finding wooden soup spoons for the first course but when it 
> comes to the coffee how can the guests stir it after adding the sugar?
> Stumped,
> Sue