Malice​ by John Gwynne

An oath: ‘I vow to you the first cut of my meat, the first sip of my mead …’

A toast: 'Welcome to my hall and table.'

Catching food:

• Salmon traps
• ‘You won’t have food caught by other people for you all of your life. You will need to play your part. And, who knows? Maybe one day you’ll have to bring down your own meals. You’ll be glad of time spent with bow and spear then.’

Cooking food:

• Spitting over a fire (food unspecified; deer)
• ‘in front of the hearth, toasting bread on a long fork’
• Cook-fires
• Firepits

Serving food:

• Wooden trenchers (bread and meat)
• Jugs (gravy)
• Bowls (porridge)
• Platters
• Wooden plates

Storing / Serving drinks:

• Jugs (wine)
• Mugs (milk)
• Jars (wine)
• Cups
• Skins (a sour liquid; water)

In alphabetical order:

• Apples
• Bacon
• Berries and cream
• Bread (thickly buttered)
• Bread and cheese and slices of hot meat
• Cheese, eggs and warm meat
• Chicken (cold leg)
• Deer
• Eggs
• Figs (and peaches, plums and olives, warm flatbreads and jars of wine)
• Fish stew
• Flatbreads
• Fruit
• Honey-bread
• Honey-cake
• Honeycomb (as a metaphor)
• Lamb (leg)
• Mead
• Meat
• Meats and warm bread plus a jug of gravy
• Milk
• Mutton (leg)
• Nuts
• Oatcakes
• Olives
• Peaches
• Plums
• Porridge and honey
• Rack of ribs
• Salted Meat
• Salty cheese
• Stew (with hot bread)
• Usque
• Vegetables
• Water
• Watered wine
• Wine

In order of appearance:

• Meat
• Wine
• Bread and cheese and slices of hot meat
• Fruit
• Meats and warm bread plus a jug of gravy
• Salted Meat
• Water
• Honey-cake
• Milk
• Honeycomb (as a metaphor)
• Porridge and honey
• Usque
• Rack of ribs
• Oatcakes
• Watered wine
• Chicken (cold leg)
• Deer
• Fish stew
• Eggs
• Cheese, eggs and warm meat
• Plums
• Apples
• Mead
• Figs (with peaches, plums and olives, warm flatbreads and jars of wine)
• Peaches
• Olives
• Flatbreads
• Salty cheese
• Lamb (leg)
• Nuts
• Berries and cream
• Bacon
• Bread (thickly buttered)
• Vegetables
• Honey-bread
• Stew (with hot bread)
• Mutton (leg)