[Sca-cooks] On Beyond Pretzel

[Johnna Holloway]

I think the problem here may be that the bakers and bread were highly regulated.
The bakers were required to make loaves of certain sizes and weights. 
So you end up with those standard rounded loaves most often being depicted in paintings.

If you look at breads associated with holidays or celebrations, there will be others depicted.
There is a large Dutch diamond shaped bread which is known as a duivekater. You see it depicted in paintings of the visits from Saint Nicholas. (Sometimes it is also made in the form of  a shinbone.)

https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/search/objecten?q=steen%2c+jan&s=artist&js=1&p=8&ps=12#/SK-A-385,87

Or in Jan Steen's painting of Baker Oostwaert and his wife.

https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/SK-A-390

A search looking for festival or holiday scenes may yield something.

Johnnae

On Feb 19, 2013, at 11:49 PM, lilinah at earthlink.net wrote:

> So those twisty looping little bundles of bready goodness that are pretzels got me thinking, what about other twisted bread shapes? Like braided bread. So I went searching the web looking for SCA-period art showing more varied shapes of bread, but i couldn't find any braided loaves. I feel certain i've seen them before, but for some reason i just wasn't turning them up.
> Anyone know of any SCA-period art resources that show braided loaves?
> Thanks for everything! Urtatim (that's oor-tah-TEEM)
> the persona formerly known as Anahita