[Sca-cooks] Saucer?

[Johnna Holloway]

Saucer is not included in my book on English weights and measures from  
the Middle Ages. In the MED, saucer in the medieval period
is listed only as a name.

http://homecooking.about.com/library/weekly/bloldconvert.htm
indicates a saucer is one heaping cup.

Maybe the folks at medievalcookery.com can clarify.

Johnnae

On Oct 8, 2011, at 9:09 AM, Claire Clarke wrote:

> So I was looking through this:
> http://www.medievalcookery.com/notes/mscodex823.txt which someone  
> posted
> earlier in the week, and a 'saucerfull' (and spelling variations  
> thereof) is
> often used as a measurement. I was trying in my head to work out how  
> much a
> saucerful would translate to in modern measuring terms, and then it  
> occurred
> to me that I was thinking of a saucer as in the thing you put under  
> your
> teacup, and I'm guessing they didn't have those in the sixteenth  
> century. So
> does 'saucer' here refer to a sauceboat sort of thing (which could  
> be any
> size really) or something else?
>
> Angharad