[Sca-cooks] salt trenchers

[Johnna Holloway]

The Prospect Books, London, 1981 facsimile of Warner is only $130 and  
up. Quite a bargain for a lovely edition. (I own two well because...)

I'd suggest however that you should read Peter Brears' Cooking and  
Dining in Medieval England first. And also his The Boke of Keruynge  
(Book of Carving) 1508.

You stated to start that "From what little I have found, it appears  
that bread is baked with a depression in the top."

According to Brears, the salts created for Archbishop Neville (and the  
only evidence for this would would be Warner) are "salt spread over a  
square bread trencher with a knife, then cut into four (square)  
pieces.  page 398

They are not baked with a hole in them. Nothing is mentioned about  
depressions.

Johnnae


On May 2, 2011, at 5:43 PM, tudorpot at gmail.com wrote: I need to get  
hold of the full texts - using google books today.
>
> Antiquitates culinariae or Curious tracts relating to the culinary  
> affairs ...
>
> By Richard Warner, pp 103