TUDOR FOOD By Leah TUDOR MENU Roast carrots

TUDOR FOOD By Leah

TUDOR MENU Roast carrots and lettuce covered with chicken fat. Stale bread Ox’s tongue covered in ale Peacock brain crispy on out side and fleshy in side Fish (with bones) Pastry dear with side of custard and strawberry

In the Tudor period, England grew richer. Towns grew larger, great houses were built and the arts flourished. European explorers travelled the Atlantic and Pacific ocean, bringing back new products and claiming new lands; the foundations of European empires were laid at this time. Their impact would be felt worldwide. However, rapid population growth brought increased poverty to many and diseases were rife. It was also a time of religious upheaval. The English Reformation and the break from the Catholic Church saw the medieval world giving way to a new social order.

TUDOR FOOD Tudors ate alot of fresh food because there was no way of storing food to be eaten later. There were no such thing as freezers or fridges in the Tudor times. They eat with there fingers , knives and spoons. They didn’t have forks. People would keep animals all year round and kill them just before they needed to be eaten. This meant that the meat would always be fresh. To improve the flavour of games such as deer, pheasant and rabbit , it was hung up from the ceiling in a cold room for several days before eating. Bread was eaten in most meals. You could tell the class of a person by the bread they eat. Rich people eat while or wholemeal flour where as poor people eat bread out of rye and even ground acorns.

Tudor feast They eat things like swan, chicken , lamb, pheasant, rabbit and deer They eat alot of bread Kings would get one animal and sew another animal on to the back.