[Sca-cooks] brunch?

[JIMCHEVAL at aol.com]

Having researched this question in some detail, I don't know that it's that 
 cut and dried. Some people did, some people didn't. And the dietetic 
theories  that set that it was better NOT to have something right off also 
shifted. Yes,  they applied at certain times, but not always. And of course only 
for certain  classes.
 
No, they didn't have hot drinks. Typically, whatever local alcohol existed  
was used - wine, beer, even brandy. With bread, more often than not. Bread  
dipped in wine was often the Roman breakfast as well.

It's a happy accident that even the lower orders were drinking some  form 
of caffeine drink by the time the industrial revolution arrived, with all  
that machinery. But at the start of the eighteenth century wine was still 
being  given for breakfast in the Bastille.
 
Jim  Chevallier

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In a message dated 6/27/2015 5:06:56 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
stefanlirous at gmail.com writes:

Through  out most of period (and cultures?) breakfast as one of the first 
things you  did after getting up, did not exist, and as Suey points out, was 
often done  after mass so not the first event of the day. And they did this 
without coffee  or tea!