Give us this day our daily bread: Bread and Trenchers on the medieval table.

[ppfuf]

I've figured out my class for the Culinary symposium.

Give us this day our daily bread: Bread and Trenchers on the medieval table.

This class will cover the use of bread on the 15th and 16th century dining table, including hands-on carving of eating bread and bread trenchers. There will be a PowerPoint presentation of historical trenchers and bread knives. If time, there will be a discussion of wafers and Elizabethan dessert trenchers. Most information presented will be drawn from English sources.

This class will not be about the history of bread, commercial uses or manufacture of bread, nor about the religious role of bread in medieval society.

Comments

Cool.

[learnteach.livejournal.com]

Would you help me (point me to the resources you know) for a basic pickle class? (Apply your laurelly goodness to my hardy learning) (Eat some pickles?)

Re: Cool.

[ppfuf.livejournal.com]

Sure, do you want that sorted by the food pickled (cucumber, beets), date of source, or geographic region?

For a basic modern class on pickles, I'd start with the instructions in _Putting Food By_, it's an oldie but a goodie.
http://www.amazon.com/Putting-Food-Fifth-Ruth-Hertzberg/dp/0452296226

Re: Cool.

[madbaker.livejournal.com]

Pickled, Potted, and Canned may have some good information too.

Re: Cool.

[ppfuf.livejournal.com]

Hi, I sent you the pickle pages from an alternate address (what's up with yahoo lately?) so if you don't see it, please check your spam file.

[tafelspitz.livejournal.com]

XTAL,

I've gone through the book I have of the very early 17th C. painted wooden disks from Coburg. They are not trenchers but instead are targets. However, there are some similar themes. These include depictions of fables from Aesop. Let me know if you want to see the book.

[ppfuf.livejournal.com]

I woudl like to see the book, and see if they are the same prints used by the trenchers. Will you be at Investiture? If not, GM and I are still planning on crashing at your place after Boar Hunt.