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Tuesday 07 February 2006

What to do with four-day-old bread: Wednesday's food quotation

Alway thy soveraynes bred thow choppe, & þat it be newe & able;
se alle oþer bred a day old or þou choppe to þe table;
alle howsold bred iii. dayes old, so it is profitable;
and trencher bred iiii. dayes is convenyent & agreable.

c. 1465 John Russell, Boke of Nurture 53 ff.

Contributed by Andrew Dalby. Posted at 22:31
Categories: A medieval world, Quotations