[Sca-cooks] Trinsch bread

[emilio szabo]

The online Dictionary of the Scots Language (http://www.dsl.ac.uk) 

includes the article pasted below:

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Trinsch bread , n.   [? Trinsch v. Cf. also late ME trencher bred (c1460) ‘bread made of unbolted flour for use as trenchers’ (OED Trencher n. 7).] ? Bread cut in slices or ? some sort of bread deriving ultim. from the type of bread used as trenchers. —  Denner and supper … for toistis trinsch bread and sayes—iij b. To thair disiones … sour breid;1593–4 Mar & Kellie MSS 41.

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Does anybody know, what kind of "food sources" they used for their quotations?

To be honest, I don't fully understand the quotation from 1593-4. Comments?

E.


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