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helwen

Medieval Food Question(s)

Jan 17, 2014 11:07

I have a friend who's currently transcribing a treatise on horsemanship (Gervase Markham), and it has some terms she's having trouble figuring out ( Read more... )

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I chrisilin January 17 2014, 16:41:06 UTC

It's actually feeding the horse breads of that size (although made from different ingredients) or fed that quantity of bread throughout the day. While I know that various priced loaves had to have specific amounts of weight to them, I can't find the actual weights/sizes of the loaves of bread.

maybe not what you want bytchearse January 17 2014, 21:28:44 UTC

But I plugged "halfpenny wheaten loaf" into Google just to see and a link to an e-book (and "The History of the Town of Gravesend in the Cunty of Kent" circa 1620) shows the weights of loaves as proscribed by law.

Re: maybe not what you want helwen January 18 2014, 04:14:10 UTC

That has possibilities...

Re: maybe not what you want chrisilin January 19 2014, 12:19:23 UTC

I tried that, but I'm not getting the same results you are - I get a couple of books that talk about how much more Stratford's loaf costs than London's loaft, but that specific book is one I can't find. I suspect that Google UK is slightly different from Google USA. Could one of you wonderful people grab me the link?

Hoepfully this long link works bytchearse January 20 2014, 13:40:36 UTC

It did when I just tried it. FYI, that info is on page 292 of the document.

http://books.google.com/books?id=5NRUAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA292&lpg=PA292&dq=%22halfpenny+wheaten+loaf%22&source=bl&ots=oPrEEVdNCc&sig=-buqc0FEiDlemqWmuB1UdvXeZX8&hl=en&sa=X&ei=6ibdUtXLE66-sQS0yIGADw&ved=0CCsQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=%22halfpenny%20wheaten%20loaf%22&f=false

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