Tudor foods

Poor Tudor food Poor Tudors couldn't afford expensive and delicious foods like the rich could , so they ate something called pottage. Pottage is a bit like porridge except its made from peas ,milk , egg yolks , breadcrumbs and parsley and flavoured with saffron and ginger. If you drank the water in Tudor times you'd be sick because its mixed up with sewage water. So instead they drank beer and ale even the children! But luckily its not as strong as today.

Rich Tudor foods The rich Tudors had massive banquets with lots of delicious but weird foods. Unlike the poor rich people could afford exquisite food to impress there guests. At times during Elizabeth's reign a lot of meat was eaten. E.g. : 1,240 oxen , 8,200 sheep, 2,330 deer , 760 calves , 1,870 pigs and 53 wild boar.

Meat Fact: In those days they didn’t have fridges or freezers so instead they rub salt into the meat. Meat in those days was usually considered for the rich. About 75% of the Tudor diet was meat such as rabbit , badger , oxen , pig , deer , calves and wild boar. Birds were also eaten e.g. capon (male chicken), pigeon , sparrows , heron , crane , pheasant , woodcock , partridge , blackbirds and peacocks.

This is a real English Latin Tudor recipe book. These are the kings chefs preparing a Christmas dinner for him When food was cooked in pies, likewise the food inside the was eaten , but the pastry was thrown away. This table was used to squeeze blood out of the meat. This is a real English Latin Tudor recipe book.