Kenneth:
Shakespeare's lifelong friend, who was a witness to, and benificiary of his
will, was Hamnet Sadler (sometimes spelled Hamlet) a Stratford baker. The
Bard must have been aware of his friend's experiments with Wonderbread when
he wrote:

"Most lazar-like, with vile and loathsome crust" (Hamlet, I/5)

There is also a passage in Troilus and Cressida indicating that He must have
spent some time watching the baker:

PANDARUS Well, I have told you enough of this: for my part, I'll not
meddle nor make no further. He that will have a cake out of the wheat must
needs tarry the grinding.

TROILUS Have I not tarried?

PANDARUS Ay, the grinding; but you must tarry the bolting.

TROILUS Have I not tarried?

PANDARUS Ay, the bolting, but you must tarry the leavening.

TROILUS Still have I tarried.

PANDARUS Ay, to the leavening; but here's yet in the word 'hereafter' the
kneading, the making of the cake, the heating of the oven and the baking;
nay, you must stay the cooling too, or you may chance to burn your lips.



And in the same play he notes the frustrations of dealing with sourdough:



"Speak then, thou vinewedst leaven, speak: I will beat thee into
handsomeness" (II/1)



And before someone accuses me of taking these out of context like some
fundamentalist preacher, he also said:



"The devil can cite scripture for his purpose."



Cheers

Graham

On Sun, 25 Apr 2004 14:23:28 GMT, "graham" wrote:

Kenneth:
Shakespeare's lifelong friend, who was a witness to, and benificiary of his
will, was Hamnet Sadler (sometimes spelled Hamlet) a Stratford baker. The
Bard must have been aware of his friend's experiments with Wonderbread when
he wrote:

"Most lazar-like, with vile and loathsome crust" (Hamlet, I/5)

There is also a passage in Troilus and Cressida indicating that He must have
spent some time watching the baker:

PANDARUS Well, I have told you enough of this: for my part, I'll not
meddle nor make no further. He that will have a cake out of the wheat must
needs tarry the grinding.

TROILUS Have I not tarried?

PANDARUS Ay, the grinding; but you must tarry the bolting.

TROILUS Have I not tarried?

PANDARUS Ay, the bolting, but you must tarry the leavening.

TROILUS Still have I tarried.

PANDARUS Ay, to the leavening; but here's yet in the word 'hereafter' the
kneading, the making of the cake, the heating of the oven and the baking;
nay, you must stay the cooling too, or you may chance to burn your lips.



And in the same play he notes the frustrations of dealing with sourdough:



"Speak then, thou vinewedst leaven, speak: I will beat thee into
handsomeness" (II/1)



And before someone accuses me of taking these out of context like some
fundamentalist preacher, he also said:



"The devil can cite scripture for his purpose."



Cheers

Graham


Hi Graham,

No such accusation from me... Those are great.

Sincere thanks,

--
Kenneth

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