[Sca-cooks] Structure of an Elizabethan Feast?

[Alexander Clark]

On Fri, 22 Apr 2016 15:48:09 -0500, "Terry Decker" <t.d.decker at att.net>
wrote:

> Ten to twelve courses is more medieval style of service.  By 1560, three
course great dinners were becoming the norm.

Let's not forget that in period there was a big difference between a dish
and a course.  It was not unusual for an English feast to include ten to
twelve dishes in one course, but it was usual in the late Middle Ages to
have no more than three courses in a feast.  My understanding is that three
courses were enough for royalty, two courses were usual for nobility (at
least the lesser nobility), and one course for commons.

-- 
Henry of Maldon/Alex Clark