[Sca-cooks] salt trenchers
Terry Decker
t.d.decker at att.net
Mon May 2 15:19:39 PDT 2011
Caveat. The feast for Archbishop Nevill took place in 1466, by which time
the use of trenchers had declined significantly. The description of their
use to hold salt may or may not represent a common use.
Bread trenchers appear between 10th and 11th Centuries. The use begins to
decline in the late 13th Century and by the 15th Century it appears to be
primarily ceremonial. General use is limited mostly to the great noble
houses with lesser wealthy persons using them for special occasions. The
quadrant of trenchers described in the inthronization of Archbishop Nevill
is likely similar to the woodcut in the Schatzbehalter. The use of four
trencher slices would have been limited to the highest ranking people at the
feast.
Bear
> Antiquitates culinariae or Curious tracts relating to the culinary affairs
> ...
>
> By Richard Warner, pp 103
>
> The head of the page says "The inthronization of Archbishop Nevill page
> 103
> Theadora
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