[Sca-cooks] Byzantine bread stamps
ysabeau
ysabeau at mail.ev1.net
Fri Jun 9 06:10:29 PDT 2006
Just as an aside that might provide ~some~ insight...I noticed at
some of the small town festivals in Germany that they sold bread
loaves with different items embedded in the top of the loaf...like
an egg cup or shot glass or piece of glazed pottery painted with a
symbol. The items were kind of a souvenir for the event.
Maybe the stamps indicated the type of bread, or the weight
(different loaf sizes) or the baker?
Ysabeau
---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Saint Phlip" <phlip at 99main.com>
Reply-To: Cooks within the SCA <sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org>
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 23:59:27 -0400
>>From the Byzantine List:
>
><http://www.iconastas.co.uk/stock.asp?Cat=5>
><http://www.cookieboard.com/Home%20Pages/Related2.html>
>
>On both of these pages are Byzantine bread stamps. The second
page has info
>on why they were used, but I wonder how they were used. Were
bread loaves
>baked on top of them?
>
>Samia
>
>
>--
>Saint Phlip
>
>Don't like getting old? Beats the Hel out of the alternative.
>
>The purpose of life is not to arrive at the grave, a beautiful
corpse,
>pretty and well-preserved, but to slide in sideways, thoroughly
used up,
>totally worn out, proclaiming, "Wow! What a ride!"
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