In trying to find out how the "trencher" loaves were made, I searched for "medieval bread baking" and found this:.Soul-Making and Bread-Baking. March 15, 2000. The Connection ...
... Whether baking a classically simple French baguette or the complex struan bread
first made by medieval Celts on the Isle of Skye the metaphor holds. ...
http://www.theconnection.org/archive/2000/03/0315b.shtml

I have been unable to find a definition of the word "struan". It is a common family name.

the only google-hit of interest indicates that strubbly must be Penn. Dutch.

Dear tsuwm: your definitions don't seem to fit what was being described as appetizing. Please look some more'

Incidentally, in looking further I found this which you may find interesting:

Although every family cooked their own food,
for those who could afford them there were
also 'professional' cooks and bakers in
Viking Age Britain. As you can see from the
title, the name Baxter comes directly from
the Anglo-Saxon word Baecestre, this being
the female version of the job title and Baker
being the male.
It is interesting that the female term sounds like "bake sister".
Perhaps the names "Thatcher" and "Thaxter" follow the same pattern.

Still one more interesting word, evidently an archaic word for "yeast"
Leven or yeast is commonly added during mixing. Yeast ( gist )

I finally found it:

One person was appointed to guard the crops on St. Michael's
Day and to make a circuit of the township on St. Michael's Night.
Women gathered wild carrots a few days before the festival on
Domhnach Curran, Carrot Sunday. Recitations accompanied the
pulling out of the carrots, either by hand or by special mattock. It
was considered good luck to find a forked carrot, a symbol of
fertility. The festivities also included the sacrifice of an
unblemished lamb and the special St. Michael's Cake baked on a
lambskin and moistened with sheep's milk. The cake, known as
the struan, was baked on a large, flat stone; it had to remain
whole during baking or evil would befall the family. It was then
taken to church to be blessed.

I haven't looked this up in years, but I thought it may be of interest to note here that I belive the etymology of the word lady is one who bakes bread...

I'll liu and add anything of interest here later...


Just found it:

Lady:
The Old English word for lady was hlafdige. Hlaf meant 'loaf' and dige meant 'a kneader of bread' or 'a maid'. In the middle English a lady was called lavedi and then lafdi. Ultimately it was reduced to lady.

http://www.geocities.com/SouthBeach/4195/words2.htm

>Domhnach Curran, Carrot Sunday

I'm assuming here that Domhnach must be the Gaelic for Sunday, and so related to the Indonesian for Sunday Minggu (via Portuguese Domingo). Sabtu Saturday also comes from Portuguese (Sabado). The names of the other days of the week (Senin, Selasa, Rabu, Kamis, Jumaat) come from Arabic.

Bingley