Lured into bread: Women in the medieval period would knead DOUGH on their body before baking it and serving it to their husbands in the hope it would improve their sex lives, historian reveals

Did people in the Middle Ages take baths?

https://www.medievalists.net/2013/04/did-people-in-the-middle-ages-take-baths/

And evidently public bathhouses were popular during the Middle Ages, perhaps a holdover from the Romans.

62 posted on 04/23/2022 5:02:28 AM PDT by MD Expat in PA (No. I am not a doctor nor have I ever played one on TV. The MD in my screen name stands for Maryland)

63 posted on 04/23/2022 5:38:13 AM PDT by freebird5850 (The only way I can treat this fever....More cowbell!)

That’s one of my favorite books ever. I have bought and given away at least a dozen copies to friends. It’s an amazing insight into the times.

64 posted on 04/23/2022 6:06:35 AM PDT by muir_redwoods (Freedom isn't free, liberty isn't liberal and you'll never find anything Right on the Left)

“I do not want to know where they got the yeast to make that bread.”

Oh man!

I guess that’s where the saying “whisker biscuit” came from. Who knew?!!?

This topic was posted 04/22/2022, thanks Trillian.

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71 posted on 11/21/2022 9:47:32 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)

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