The Tudors

1
The Tudors

• We are going to learn more about the food eaten
  in Tudor times.

2
The Poor

• There were a great many poor people in
  Elizabethan England.
• One reason was because of bad harvests. Between
  1594 and 1598 the harvest failed 5 times!
• This brought hunger everywhere in England in some
  parts, famine.

3
What did they eat?

• Mostly the poor relied on bread.
• When the harvest was bad the size of the loaves
  sold became smaller and smaller and therefore it
  was more expensive to buy enough to live on.
• Sometimes they would catch rabbits to eat, hares
  or fish to go with their turnips, beans and
  cabbage.

4
Terrible Tudor Greed!

• Of course, the rich could afford to eat much more
  than the poor.
• Eating was an important part of life at court.
  One feast of Henry VIII went on for seven hours!
• Many dishes were for show rather than eating for
  example a cockerice would be made by sewing the
  front half of a cockerel onto the back half of a
  baby pig before roasting. YUCK!

5
Your Tudor task.

• On your table you will find an envelope.
• Spread the cards out onto the table.
• Sort the cards into 2 piles.
• Modern day food, drink and cooking
• Tudor food, drink and cooking.
• Which of the foods and tools do you think would
  have been for the poor, the rich?

6
Plenary Foul Facts.

• Tudor women, men and children in England drank
  beer, wine, sherry, mead and cider.
• Not because they were drunkards- because the
  water was so polluted it could not be drunk
  unless it was boiled!