[Sca-cooks] Byzantine bread stamps

[ysabeau]

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
>
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>pretty and well-preserved, but to slide in sideways, thoroughly 
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