[Sca-cooks] A short note about medieval meals & breakfast

[edoard at medievalcookery.com]

> -------- Original Message --------
> From: Nancy Kiel 
> 
> Could it also be referring to the canonical hour of nones?  I'm not sure exactly what time of day that is, though.

Earlier in the section of that book, Hampson said something to the
effect that "noon" did refer to nones, and was the ninth hour after
sunrise (approximately 3:00 p.m.).

- Doc


> > From: edoard at medievalcookery.com
> > 
> > I just came across this reference:
> > 
> > "Divers artificers and laborers reteyned to werke and serve, waste werke
> > moch part of the day, and deserve not ther wagis; sum tyme in late
> > comyng vnto ther werke, erly departing therefro, longe sitting at ther
> > brekfast, at ther dyner, and nonemete, and long tyme of sleping at after
> > none."  - Stat. 2 Hen. VII., cap. 22 / as appearing in Medii Aevi
> > Kalendarium, Vol. 1., R.T. Hampson, 1841.
> > 
> > Implying that in England, for at least some time between 1485 and 1509,
> > it was common practice for workers to have three meals a day.
> > 
> > - Doc