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Homework Help pleased - Tudor Banquet

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Gwyn in Kent

Gwyn in Kent Report 17 Oct 2006 17:55

Copied from the net after Googling MEAT for the wealthy families Rich people had a wide variety of meat and game including what they hunted:- deer, boar, rabbit, quail, bustard, curlew, plover, cormorant, badger, hedgehog, heron, crane, pheasant, woodcock, partridge, blackbirds (remember the blackbirds in the pie in the Nursery Rhyme?) etc. They also had meat from the animals they reared on their land:- beef, mutton, veal, lamb, kid, pork, rabbit (some landowners employed men called warrenders whose job it was to look after rabbit to supply rabbit for the table), chicken, duck, swan, peacock, goose, pigeon, doves etc. Gwyn

Unknown

Unknown Report 17 Oct 2006 17:28

They also had bustard which is a bird ( i think in Germany they are breeding them again), but these birds were very much on the tudor menu.

Gwyn in Kent

Gwyn in Kent Report 17 Oct 2006 17:27

If you search on Google.... Food in Tudor Times..... there is alot of information. Gwyn

Selena in South East London

Selena in South East London Report 17 Oct 2006 17:27

Not good news for any vegetarians then. LOL. Swans - my daughter will say 'how could they'. thanks Selena

Silly Sausage

Silly Sausage Report 17 Oct 2006 17:23

Swan..........fruit , in the films there is always a platter of fruit..

Fiona

Fiona Report 17 Oct 2006 17:21

A Typical Tudor Menu (found from google) Meat:- Duck,Chicken, Pork,Ham, Goose,Rabbit Beef,Lamb Vegetables Carrots,Potatoe, Cabbage,Swede, Onion,Turnip Upper crust, Sugar plates,Marzipan, Mead Sounds good to me! Fiona.

Selena in South East London

Selena in South East London Report 17 Oct 2006 17:15

Daughter 13 has to write a menu for a Tudor banquet. I was thinking of quails, partridge, deer, marzipan etc. Any other ideas! Thanks for any suggestions, Selena