[Sca-cooks] A question pardon if it has been asked

[margaret]

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>   On the subject of bread bowls, I think they are very new.  I had never
> heard of them nor seen them untill they started to show up in San 
> Francisco
> in the 1980s.  A little while later they appeared in Los Angeles as
> well.They were a real novelty, and people who like soggy bread seemed to
> really enjoy them.  I hate soggy bread myself.
>
> Ranald de Balinhard

That makes me wonder about how long bread in milk has been used for infants 
and the ill. I've read about it in Victorian books but not before then.
Margarite