[Sca-cooks] Simple plates was Size of Trenchers
Daniel & Elizabeth Phelps
dephelps at embarqmail.com
Sun Jul 5 08:27:36 PDT 2009
Perhaps an alternative solution to the original question might be in how
meals were served in inns of the period or at sea in period and later. At
sea common meals were, if the evidence from the Mary Rose is examined,
served on billets of wood with a shallow hollow carved into them. These
might or might not have been turned and thus dish shaped round. Such could
be done relatively cheaply out of pine boards as rectangle "plates", branded
and sealed. They would of course require collection and washing up. They
might also constitute a second revenue stream as keepsakes.
Daniel
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