[Sca-cooks] Tea Information

[Stefan li Rous]

If you are talking about actual tea, you need either China or Japan.   
Tea
wasn't introduced into Europe until the 17th Century.

There is, however, a 15th Century Flemish drawing of a ladies' feast  
with
trenchers being prepared and served at the table.  A copy of the  
print was
appended to an article on trenchers that I placed with Stefan for the
Florilegium, but I don't know if the print made it into the Florlegium.

Bear
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Uh oh. There are in fact two illustrations in my master copy which  
show what appear to be lady's feasts. The one Bear described and a  
second one. The second one is also 15th Century but from Nuremburg.  
Unfortunately, the pictures didn't seem to make it to the web  
version. I thought I only had problem with one and put off fixing it  
till later. Let me see what I can do.

If you download the Word formatted version the pictures should be in  
there.

I had not noticed this until Bear mentioned it, but *all* of the  
feasters in these two pictures appear to be women. I hadn't realized  
that that was done.

Stefan
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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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