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A sop is a piece of bread or toast with which liquid food of some sort is soaked up and then eaten. In medieval cuisine sops were very common. They were dunked in various liquids such as wine, soup or broth, which were served with bread that was meant to be picked apart to soak up the food. At elaborate feasts bread was often pre-cut into finger-sized pieces rather than broken off by the diners themselves. The word "soup" is a cognate of "sop", both stemming ultimately from the same Germanic source.

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• Adamson, Melitta Weiss (2004) Food in Medieval Times ISBN 0-313-32147-7

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