[Sca-cooks] period spice containers/storage
Elise Fleming
alysk at ix.netcom.com
Fri Jun 24 13:07:39 PDT 2011
Aine wrote:
>And I will look for the place I read about the
>spice plate that was passed around at the end of
>the meal. I appreciate the correction -
>possibly the source I read was not a good
>source? If you have the source where you found
>the information about it being like a sweets
>plate passed around, I would very much appreciate it.
Other than saying that such a plate wasn't (IIRC) passed around for
diners to add their own spices to their food, I don't think there was
any correction. A spice plate or a sweets plate, however it might have
been called, would have served the same function - that of serving
sugared/candied spices to people at the close of a meal, rather like
after-dinner mints today. They were frequently of silver, silver-gilt
or gold.
I'm not coming up with a good name for that type of plate at this
moment. Someone else might have a more functioning brain (Johnna? Doc?
Bear? Adamantius?...?) as to what that serving utensil might have been
called.
Alys K.
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