TUDOR FOOD

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TUDOR FOOD

• By JOE, CALUM, ETHAN, SAM AND OPOKU

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Facts about poor Tudor food

• Most poor people ate pottage
• Pottage is a stew made using oats and vegetables
• They never ate potatoes
• They lit fires with coal
• They believed they shouldnt eat fruit raw

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• The people in Tudor times ate lots of sweets and
  they coloured the sweets with vegetable dye.
• They had really big plants.

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• They used salt to preserve their food.
• They ate lots of biscuits and cheese and the poor
  people ate from wooden bowls.
• Poor people could only afford ginger at Christmas.

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• A Tudor gingerbread biscuit was very expensive.
  Most poor people would not make biscuits like
  this except as a Christmas treat.
• In the kitchen villagers used metal cauldrons and
  other cooking pots.

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• The poor people never ate exotic food because
  they couldnt afford it.
• The poor people usually ate bread or porridge
  for breakfast.
• They had large fireplaces to allow traditional
• cooking to take place.

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Facts about rich people in Tudor times

• The rich people ate a lot of meat like bacon,
  salt pork and chickens.
• The rich people had 75 kitchens cooking at once.
• The rich people ate a lot of food.
• They locally caught deer, boar and rabbit.
• Some people ate tongue.

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• INFORMATION BY OPOKU AND ETHAN

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ROYAL FEASTS

• Royal feast consisted of many dishes.
• People usually had at least 10 portions.
• Each portion was massive
• Poor people got the remains of a big feast.

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FOOD FOR POOR PEOPLE

• THE MOST IMPORTANT FOOD FOR POOR PEOPLE WAS
  BREAD THEN CAME CHEESE NEXT CAME MILK AND ANY
  MEAT THEY ATE WOULD BE BACON.
• POTTAGE IS LIKE A STEW MADE FROM NETTLES AND
  PLANTS.

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Diet of a Tudor

• FIRST COURSE
• Brawn
• Roast tongue
• Roast lamb
• SECOND COURSE
• Rabbit
• Bread
• Tarts and custard

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HENRY VIIIS PUBLIC DINING HALL

• IN HENRYS PUBLIC DINING HALL 300 PEOPLE WOULD
  EAT AT ONCE AT 1000AM THEN ANOTHER 300 PEOPLE
  WOULD EAT AT 400PM BECAUSE THEY ONLY HAD TWO
  MEALS IN ONE DAY.

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TUDOR KITCHENS

• The kitchens that King Henry VIII had were so
  massive that people sometimes got lost in them.
• Poor people only had one kitchen which they slept
  in as well.
• Poor people didnt have an oven so they had to
  take their food to the bakers.

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• INFORMATION BY CALUM AND JOE

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MEATS AND DRINKS

• They ate bacon, goose, lamb, beef, pork, tongue,
  deer and boar.
• They drank milk, beer and water.

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Meals

• Pain Perdue
• Broad beans and bacon
• Roast apples
• Chicken blancmange

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• INFORMATION by Sam
• BYE BYE !