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

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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.

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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