[Sca-cooks] Images of meals in BSB Clm 835

[Laura C. Minnick]

On 6/27/2011 4:23 PM, wheezul at canby.com wrote:
> I'm wondering if anyone has any insight on what longish things might be
> that look like all the world to me as breadsticks?  The color seems to
> vary a bit (but then the fish can be green too), and in many images people
> touch them with two fingers.  In one there is a person grasping and
> separating a section.
>

Katrine, those actually sort of _are_ breadsticks. They called them 
sops, and were the fancier version of the bit of bread you wipe the last 
of the soup up with. Henisch talks about them in _Fast and Feast_, but 
my copy is buried here somewhere in the pre-war packing mess and I'm not 
going to dig through the pile to find it. For all I know Jimmy Hoffa is 
in there.

(PS- you will be there, yes? drop me a line of FB private message...)

Liutgard


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