[Sca-cooks] Funeral/Mourning Food

[michelle brewer]

I would like to thank you all for you help, it is greatly appreciated.
 
Kind regards,
 
Scoithniamh of Arran
Hospitaller, Barony of Innilgard
Kingdom of Lochac
 

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> Date: Sun, 22 May 2011 18:30:52 +1030
> From: michelle brewer <michellebrewer at live.com.au>
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> Hello to All,
> 
> Can anyone on here tell if they know of recipes and/or documentation of period Mourning/Funeral food.
> We are having a Eulogy Feast here (Innilgard) in late June and one of the A&S comps is mourning food and I can't seem to find any references to foods used specifically for this purpose or types of foods normally served at funerals/wakes in period. This feast is to be set in the year 1585.
> Any help from the members of this list would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Scoithniamh of Arran
> Hospitaller, Barony of Innilgard 
> 
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> Date: Sun, 22 May 2011 09:39:04 -0400
> From: Johnna Holloway <johnnae at mac.com>
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> Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Mourning/Funeral Food
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> Start with Food and the Rites of Passage, edited by Laura Mason.Food 
> for funerals is discussed by Peter Brears in the volume. That will 
> give you a start.
> Then books like Death and burial in medieval England, 1066-1550
> By Christopher Daniell or Death in England: An Illustrated History 
> will also help.
> See also Birth, marriage, and death: ritual, religion, and the life- 
> cycle in Tudor and Stuart England
> By David Cressy which talks about such meals in the mid 1500's.
> I can't say that you will actually find a detailed account that will 
> list foods served at a funeral
> in 1585. Most often one finds an account with a note that indicates 
> that an amount was paid for
> the funeral foods and drink. It varied widely depending upon the 
> wealth of the household.
> 
> Johnnae
> 
> On May 22, 2011, at 4:00 AM, michelle brewer wrote:
> > Can anyone on here tell if they know of recipes and/or documentation 
> > of period Mourning/Funeral food. We are having a Eulogy Feast here 
> > (Innilgard) in late June and one of the A&S comps is mourning food 
> > and I can't seem to find any references to foods used specifically 
> > for this purpose or types of foods normally served at funerals/wakes 
> > in period. This feast is to be set in the year 1585.
> > Any help from the members of this list would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> 
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> Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Mourning/Funeral Food
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> While I don't have anything to add about funeral feasts there was the practice in the 1600's of giving momentous of the dead at funerals. In the instance I recall these were rings given to the mourners in attendance. I suspect that such practices occurred as early as the 1500's as well. 
> 
> Daniel
> 
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> From: "Johnna Holloway" <johnnae at mac.com>
> To: "Cooks within the SCA" <sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org>
> Sent: Sunday, May 22, 2011 9:39:04 AM
> Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Mourning/Funeral Food
> 
> Start with Food and the Rites of Passage, edited by Laura Mason.Food 
> for funerals is discussed by Peter Brears in the volume. That will 
> give you a start.
> Then books like Death and burial in medieval England, 1066-1550
> By Christopher Daniell or Death in England: An Illustrated History 
> will also help.
> See also Birth, marriage, and death: ritual, religion, and the life- 
> cycle in Tudor and Stuart England
> By David Cressy which talks about such meals in the mid 1500's.
> I can't say that you will actually find a detailed account that will 
> list foods served at a funeral
> in 1585. Most often one finds an account with a note that indicates 
> that an amount was paid for
> the funeral foods and drink. It varied widely depending upon the 
> wealth of the household.
> 
> Johnnae
> 
> On May 22, 2011, at 4:00 AM, michelle brewer wrote:
> > Can anyone on here tell if they know of recipes and/or documentation 
> > of period Mourning/Funeral food. We are having a Eulogy Feast here 
> > (Innilgard) in late June and one of the A&S comps is mourning food 
> > and I can't seem to find any references to foods used specifically 
> > for this purpose or types of foods normally served at funerals/wakes 
> > in period. This feast is to be set in the year 1585.
> > Any help from the members of this list would be greatly appreciated.
> 
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> Date: Sun, 22 May 2011 07:44:06 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Honour Horne-Jaruk <jarukcomp at yahoo.com>
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> Respected friends:
> 
> --- On Sun, 5/22/11, michelle brewer <michellebrewer at live.com.au> wrote:
> 
> Hello to All,
> 
> Can anyone on here tell if they know of recipes and/or documentation of period Mourning/Funeral food.
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Scoithniamh of Arran
> Hospitaller, Barony of Innilgard ??? ???????? ?????? ??? ? 
> 
> "Thrift, thrift, Horatio, the funeral bak'd meats 
> did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables."
> 
> 
> 
> Yours in service to both the Societies of which I am a member-
> 
> (Friend) Honour Horne-Jaruk, R.S.F.
> 
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> Date: Sun, 22 May 2011 13:50:48 -0400
> From: "Kingstaste" <kingstaste at comcast.net>
> To: "'Cooks within the SCA'" <sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org>
> Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Mourning/Funeral Food
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> My lady, if you will send me your email address I can send you the notes I
> have on period funeral practices, some include food. 
> Mistress Christianna MacGrain
> Kingstaste at comcast.net
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