[Sca-cooks] Tea Information
Stefan li Rous
StefanliRous at austin.rr.com
Sat May 16 13:26:28 PDT 2009
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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