mediumaevum: Word of the day - Trencher The bread plates had a slight hollow in the centre and
mediumaevum:Word of the day - TrencherThe bread plates had a slight hollow in the centre and were known as trenchers. At the beginning of the period, people mainly ate with their fingers from these stale bread plates.After the meal, trenchers would be collected and given to the poor or fed to the dogs. In the late Medieval period, people started to use wooden trenchers instead of bread.image source -- source link
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