Hi my 9yr old daughter has a project to do witghin 3 wks on tudor food i have looked on alot off websites ?

Question

Alot off the websites have not alot off pictures as i want to print alot for her,can anyone else help or anyone i can phone to get info sent to me.Thanks

Just like to say my daughter is doing her own project im just there to help her if needed,she 9years old not 15.

Minicat yes that would be great if possible you could send the pics,but what are the pics off ? Email me Thanks

Answer 1

A Feast For The Eyes!
The third link is the best, there are currently 304 images arranged in 8 categories: Have fun.

These illustrations of food and feasting are from authentic period sources. There are no 20th century pictures in this collection, nor any modern moyen-age art - these are the true images that our Medieval & Renaissance ancestors created depicting the food & feasting, the kitchens & equipment, and the taverns & feasthalls that enriched their daily lives.

Answer 2

You've got loads of useful advice here - just to add two things: a month ago we happened to be at Buckland Abbey (home of Francis Drake), where they had an Elizabethan themed weekend - OK I know it's not Tudor, but the food was pretty similar for most people - and they had prepared a 'banquet' (middle-class, not aristocracy) in the kitchens - children could make little pastry things and so on. Buckland Abbey is National Trust - I don't know how often they do the weekends, but they might have some photos and other info you can look at. There were some fascinating things, like hard-boiled eggs in a mustard and butter sauce - a sort of early salad cream ...
The other thing, if you can get hold of it, is a book by Dorothy Hartley 'Food in England', published in the early 1960s, I think. A splendid book, fun to read as well as informed - and it has recipes.
By the way, Buckland Abbey is in the Tamar Valley, and for all I know you could be several hundred miles from it ... Oh, I've got a couple of pics from the weekend as well - don't know how useful that is?

Answer 3

www.historyonthenet.com/Tudors/food.htm


Facts about Tudor Food
The Tudors could keep the animals they used for food alive, so meat was available all year round

Fruit and vegetables could only be eaten when they were in season

Potatoes were not introduced to the UK until Elizabeth's reign and then would only have been available to the rich

The Catholic religion of the early Tudors meant that they could not eat meat on a Friday and often not on a Wednesday.

Bread was always served with a meal There was no fresh drinking water and so ale was drunk with a meal. The very rich may have wine.

Three-quarters of the Tudor diet was made up of meat - oxen, deer, calves, pigs or wild boar. They also ate a lot of chicken and other birds - pigeons, sparrows and peacocks.

Meat was roasted, boiled or made into pies. Fish was baked, fried, grilled or boiled.

Tudor food was served in a sauce flavoured with herbs and spices.

Answer 4

When you say that you have looked at a lot of websites, I assume you mean with no result.

I used to own a book called the "Elizabethan Pageant." It should answer your question well. You should be able to find it at a large public library.

One thing I remember from the book is that they ate a lot of wild game. The reason was that they had plagues some years prior to the reign of Elizabeth. English agriculture was neglected because of the reduction in population in the country and many fields became overgrown. The wildlife returned in abundance. They were nuts over wild birds and went to elaborate means to prepare them. Elizabeth, herself, was, in fact a crack shot with the cross bow. She hunted deer from horse back.

They cooked a lot of meats on spits over open fires. To turn the spits often they would have a round cage attached to the spit and place a small dog inside to turn it. Hence, the name spit's being applied to breeds of dogs. The slow cooking of rather large pieces of meat induced a great flavor into the meat and made for savory dining. Sometimes half an ox was cooked on a spit. Cooking on a spit though is inefficient. It takes a lot of wood. This common practice in part led to the depletion of English forests.

Salmon ran in the Thames in such great abundance that they were used as cheap food for the working class. This was done to the extent that some people were complaining about eating so much of it. Strange to think that what we consider today as a luxury food that people would complain about eating too much of it. The working people also consumed cheese which was considered an inexpensive substitute for meat.

Meat pies often made with organ meats such as kidney pie were common fare. As were poraiges, gruel (oatmeal) and a variety of puddings.

You might want to check the website below. The page is called "what we eat" about Elizabethans.

Answer 5

Try talking to companied which do medieaval banquets. Hampton court, Pembroke Castle (Henry Tudor was born there). Anywhere associated with the Tudors might be able to help.

Answer 6

My daughter made Tudor gingerbread for her class. She got the recipe from the net. It's dead easy - you use breadcrumbs. Google the recipe - it must still be there somewhere.

Answer 7

just get a training bra for her and shell be fine :) shes lucky im 15 ad flat chested what are u feeding ur daughter

Answer 8

http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?ei=UTF-8&p=tudor%20food&fr=ush-ans&fr2=tab-web

just start clicking on the picks and go to the sites and look for more, also help my brat by reading my profile and signing your child up please.

Answer 9

your daughter needs to be doing this herself it's her home work,go to the library with her.

Answer 10

http://www.historyonthenet.com/Tudors/food.htm
http://www.tynedaleheritage.org/Resources/FoodMain.htm
http://www.mape.org.uk/curriculum/history/tudorfood.htm

These websites might help.