Foods+and+Drinks

Food and Drinks By:Jack

Foods and drinks in the Middle Ages are different from modern days. They only have alcohol for drinking, even children drank this. They only have wine and beer because the water for drinking was not clean enough to drink.  Lords and kings had a easy time finding food. They had people that work for them to find food. Usually there are three or two meals. The first meal is called light breakfast. The meal had mainly bread and cheese. Second they had the main meal called dinner. The lords had mainly meat, pastries, breads, wine or ale, fruits and cheeses.In the winter time they had birds killed for their table.

On the other hand, peasants had a hard time surviving, and not just in the winter. The main foodstuffs they had were vegetables, turnips, salad, dark bread, porridges, an occasional fish, cheese curds, beer, ale or mead.

During the spring and summer month’s food stuffs were high in supply, included starling, vultures, gull, herons, storks, cormorants, swans, cranes, peacock, capon’s chickens, dogfish, porpoises, seals, whale, haddock, cod, salmon, sardines, lamprey, dolphins, tummies, eels as well as mullet, sole, shad flounder, mackerel, trout , crab, crayfish and oysters.

The winter months were the months were hard to survive. Wild animals were hard to find. They dried or preserved the meat during the spring and summer. Beef have to be dried. Or else they will rot. In that time there will no refrigerator.  Sources: [] Updated in 2008  For more informations of peasants click Life of a Peasant Columbia University [|www.columbia.edu/cu/medieval/clip_image002.jpg] Hungary Tourist [|www.hungary-tourist-guide.com/blog/wp-content]

