![]() How was cooking done? Today I’m using open fire with a grate For drama and ambiance. Coating the meat with flour will create a thicker sauce for the filling. Man I’m fancy!) cloves, and tossing in a whole cinnamon stick to the pot. For spice, I’m using black pepper (which was worth more than pure gold. There’s a common myth that spices were used to mask the flavor of rotten meat but if you could afford spices, in most cases you could afford meat from a reputable butcher. Vegetables were rarely eaten raw although recipes for “salat” can be found in medieval cookbooks. Onions, leeks and carrots were eaten by all classes in Medieval Europe. Medieval cooking used a wide variety of herbs like parsley, rosemary, mint, basil, thyme and ditany (which I honestly thought was something JK Rowling made up in Harry Potter.) Herbs and spices were commonly used in tonics to cure ailments in Medieval Europe in the days before medicine. Kitchen gardens were on nearly every property & were an important source of nutrients and flavor. Even then, these ingredients were not eaten by Europeans right away. Not one of those ingredients made its way across the Atlantic from the New World to Europe before 1492, and certainly not in the 11th century. ![]() I love anything that gets people excited about history but if you’re going to have a themed restaurant, and tell people it’s the 11th century (according to their website), you can’t serve tomatoes, corn and potatoes and be accurate. I’m definitely going to do a better job at illustrating food in this era than a certain Medieval themed restaurant and tournament, you know the one. I realize the medieval era, or Middle Ages covers the span of 1000 years so it’s challenging to pack all the information in one video/post so I’m going to do my best to give a general picture of food in this time. The punishment for poaching could result in death or having hands cut off.We’re going back to Medieval times to learn about what Europeans were eating from the 5th to 15th century. They were unable to afford luxury items such as spices and only Lords and Nobles were allowed to hunt deer, boar, hares and rabbits. The Middle Ages food and diet of the peasants was very much home grown. Middle Ages Food and Diet of the Lower Classes / Peasants
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