10 Horn, “Social and Economic Aspects of Local Society in England and the Chesapeake,” 183, 185, 205, reports the following frequencies of roasting equipment (spits), by total wealth of inventoried estates, in the late 17th century:
Total Wealth |
Gloucestershire |
Maryland |
Virginia |
less than £10 |
|
|
|
£10-£49 |
|
|
|
£50-£99 |
|
|
|
£100-£249 |
|
|
|
£250 and up |
|
|
|
11 Carson, Colonial Virginia Cookery, 11.
12 Frederick P. Stieff, Eat, Drink and Be Merry in Maryland (New York, 1932), xiv.