Jean B. > wrote:

> Victor Sack wrote:
> > I have here a September food schedule of Novospassky
> > Monastery from the year 1648. Schi of some kind were served at least
> > once, often twice, every single day.
>
> Very nice recipe, and I am (of course) most envious about that
> food schedule. Neat!

It is not any kind of original, not even a reproduction, just a listing
in a book. By the way, though *from* the year 1648 (just five years
before Raskol, the great schism of the Russian Orthodoxy), it is not for
September 1648, but for *any* September and that is why there are lenten
and non-lenten alternatives every day. No meat is mentioned, however,
at least not explicitly, but a lot of fish, much of it various kinds of
sturgeon. Still, the general impression is that of monotony.

Victor