[Sca-cooks] William the Conquerors Domesday Book online

Daniel & Elizabeth Phelps dephelps at embarqmail.com
Sat Feb 16 19:06:22 PST 2008


I would be interested in knowing what type of water mills; undershot or 
overshot.

Daniel

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Saint Phlip" <phlip at 99main.com>
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Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2008 6:11 PM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] William the Conquerors Domesday Book online


> OK, I was looking through the information about the book, and found
> the following line:
>
> "The arable land was used to grow wheat, barley, oats and beans.
> Domesday records over some 6000 mills to cope with the heavy work of
> grinding the grain; these were all water mills as windmills did not
> appear in England until the 12th century. "
>
> What type of bean were they refering to?
>
>
> On Feb 16, 2008 6:49 PM, Heleen Greenwald <heleen at ptd.net> wrote:
>> LOL! Well, I was thinking more along the lines of 'It's food related
>> if its a recipe'... Sorry I was being so linear.   :-P
>> ~warm hugs~
>> Phillipa
>>
>>
>> ~ It's our choices Harry,  that show who we truly are, far more than
>> our abilities.~   Albus Dumbledore
>>
>>
>> On Feb 16, 2008, at 12:41 AM, Laura C. Minnick wrote:
>>
>> > At 09:24 PM 2/15/2008, you wrote:
>> >> Sorry this isn't food content, exactly, but I thought y'all might be
>> >> interested anyway.
>> >> Phillipa
>> >>
>> >>> Subject: William the Conquerors Domesday Book online
>> >>>
>> >>> http://www.domesdaybook.co.uk/
>> >>>
>> >>> Digital databases for the Domesday Book
>> >
>> > It is too food-related! All of those inventories, counting every last
>> > bit of livestock? That tells us what they were eating! I consider
>> > that very important to food research. So there. Nyah! :-P
>> >
>> > 'Lainie
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