RETRO REVIVAL

There are more than 100 recipes for all manner of things served in a cob loaf on taste.com.au, but how come no-one has added curried sausages? Both have a rich and delicious story to tell.

Bread has been an essential part of the table setting since the Middle Ages and back into classical times. The rich ate off gold and silver, while the merchant class resorted to pewter or enamelled tin. For everyone else, a stale slab of bread, known as a trencher (from