bread trencher class?

[ppfuf]

For the West/AnTir cooks' symposium next spring, I'm going to co-teach a class on bread with gormflaith. She's covering the practical bread-making parts, and I'm doing an overview of the use of bread trenchers and portpains in the medieval feast hall. I might include the instructions for cutting bread at the table c. 1480's England.

If you were going to take such a class, what questions would you like to have answered?

Comments

[cvirtue.livejournal.com]

Aha! Hoist by our own super-sized-plates petards!

[ppfuf.livejournal.com]

::giggle:: Yup. Your grandkids will be eating out of bathtubs.

When I find modern commercially-produced plates that can pass for medieval, I tell people to buy the lunch plates, or the dessert plates. A modern dinner plate is the size of a serving platter.