[Sca-cooks] fuddle cups
Huette von Ahrens
ahrenshav at yahoo.com
Sun Jun 1 22:07:30 PDT 2008
Here is another fuddling cup that I have found:
http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/ceramics/pages/object.asp?obj_id=113474
As for the book flask, if I remember correctly, its original usage was as a hand warmer. I
believe that over the years this changed to a drinking flask. There are also the cask jugs,
which also had its original usage as a foot warmer.
Huette
--- Daniel & Elizabeth Phelps <dephelps at embarqmail.com> wrote:
> Fuddle Cups are mentioned and imaged in this site.
>
> http://www.ceramicstoday.com/articles/puzzle_jugs.htm
>
> Don't know if they are period. I do have a flask that is a reproduction of
> one from just out of our period that is made in the shape of a small book.
> You drink from a hole that lies in from the spine at the toop, i.e from
> between the pages. Does anyone know if such were period? Side note I've
> an image of a jug that looks just like a leather "cask" that is
> documentable to the last century of our period.
>
> Daniel
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Stefan li Rous" <StefanliRous at austin.rr.com>
> To: "SCA-Cooks maillist SCA-Cooks" <SCA-Cooks at Ansteorra.org>
> Sent: Sunday, June 01, 2008 6:17 PM
> Subject: [Sca-cooks] fuddle cups
>
>
> > Daniel mentioned:
> > <<< I was also wondering about fuddle cups which appear to be several
> > cups (3?)
> > cojoined such that they must be drunk in a certain sequence to prevent a
> > spill. >>>
> >
> > I had a little bit of info on puzzle jugs, and even have one of Master
> > Hroar's here at home, but not enough to create a file on them. Now with
> > the recent messages, perhaps I do. Thanks
> >
> > However, this is the first I've heard of "fuddle cups". Does anyone have
> > more info on these or references to them? Or perhaps a link to a picture
> > of one? I'm having a bit of trouble imagining how they might be cojoined
> > to make them have to be drunk in a specific sequence. Does anyone know of
> > anyone making these?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Stefan
> > --------
> > THLord Stefan li Rous Barony of Bryn Gwlad Kingdom of Ansteorra
> > Mark S. Harris Austin, Texas
> > StefanliRous at austin.rr.com
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> >
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My thoughts are whirled like a potter's wheel; King Henry VI, part I: I, v
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