I was watching Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves and it reminded me of something that I wanted to ask for a long time. It was the staple food back then and they traveled with it. How did they make it so it wouldn't get moldy and hard as a rock like bread does today? Or did they pick off or eat the mold as well and just crunched into it?
2007-10-13 05:01:48 · 9 answers · asked by =Q= 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Also, meant to say, they traveled with it so making it daily wasn't really an option.
2007-10-13 05:05:51 · update #1
It did get hard and they often dipped it into sauces and gravies, or water to soften it while eating it. Hence the term "to sop up your gravy" with bread, and referring to things as "sopping wet". It also was eaten hard as well.
2007-10-13 05:04:40 · answer #1 · answered by Gary D 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They had professional bakers who made bread daily in the towns and cities. In the villages they baked at least twice a week or did with out. Bread got moldy and you could get really sick from eating it so they cut the mold off if it had just started.
2007-10-13 05:06:02 · answer #2 · answered by Coasty 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I was talking to a WW II Veteran a few years ago. He was in a plane that got shot down over Germany and he was captured, and spent two years in a POW camp. He told me that the Germans couldn't feed them very well, and sometimes they'd trade cigarettes for food with local civilians through the fence. He said that a lady gave him a loaf of bread that had been dipped in wax. In 1944, the date 1939 was inscribed in the wax on the bottom. That's the only method of bread preservation I've heard of.
2007-10-13 05:55:56 · answer #3 · answered by Derail 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't get your history from Hollywood. Bread just went moldy. Perhaps they scraped the mold off
2007-10-13 05:15:13 · answer #4 · answered by brainstorm 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The types of bread today and back then are really different. They made Rye bread which doesnt go bad as fast as bread that you can buy today, and is already quite hard.
2007-10-13 05:12:01 · answer #5 · answered by Jackie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They would make & eat it daily. If you live in certain parts of Europe today they still go shopping everyday for foods because of the tradition related to bad refridgeration.
2007-10-13 05:14:21 · answer #6 · answered by april 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They made fresh bread daily.
2007-10-13 05:04:18 · answer #7 · answered by peaches6 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
they probaly made new bread if it went bad
2007-10-13 05:04:23 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah. To put it simply: They weren't as picky.
2007-10-13 05:05:40 · answer #9 · answered by spychic19 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋