[Sca-cooks] period spice containers/storage
Terry Decker
t.d.decker at att.net
Fri Jun 24 14:20:22 PDT 2011
I can't think of any synonyms for spice plate, although I have seen a
reference about Tudor spice plates becoming sweetmeat plates later on.
I think the work Aine is referencing is Turner's Spice--The History of an
Obsession.
Bear
> 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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