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A restored medieval kitchen inside Verrucole Castle, Tuscany. The kitchen staff of huge noble or royal courts occasionally numbered in the hundreds: pantlers, bakers, waferers, sauciers, larderers, butchers, carvers, page boys, milkmaids, butlers, and numerous scullions. While an average peasant household often made do with firewood collected ...
The choice of meats were lamb, and several wild animals like gazelles, wild asses, and suckling young in general. Meat was often salted, smoked or dried. Wine was popular, like elsewhere around the Mediterranean, and it was the drink of choice among the higher social classes, where sweet wines like Muscat or Madeira/Malmsey were popular.
Peasant homes in medieval England were centered around the hearth while some larger homes may have had separate areas for food processing like brewhouses and bakehouses, and storage areas like barns and granaries. There was almost always a fire burning, sometimes left covered at night, because it was easier than relighting the fire.
Cuisine of the medieval Islamic world (2 C, 2 P) B. Byzantine cuisine (21 P) M. Medieval cookbooks (1 C, 10 P) Medieval wine (9 P) P. Peasant food (27 P)
A trencher (from Old French trancher 'to cut') is a type of tableware, commonly used in medieval cuisine. A trencher was originally a flat round of (usually stale) bread used as a plate, upon which the food could be placed to eat. [1] At the end of the meal, the trencher could be eaten with sauce, but could also be given as alms to the poor.
From the outset the house had two fireplaces. In the living room, the Stube, there was a cocklestove, and in the Flur was a stove for cooking, which was later partitioned off to form a kitchen. Initially, this type of house only had one storey, but from about the 15th century they were usually built in two storeys with a ground floor and upper ...
The local monks, it turns out, were riddled with worms. Though this might seem like an opportunity to snicker at the irony of hygienically challenged medieval friars, for the friars themselves ...
The Abbot's Kitchen, 2009 The Abbot's Kitchen, 1890. The Abbot's Kitchen is a mediaeval octagonal building that served as the kitchen at Glastonbury Abbey in Glastonbury, Somerset, England. [1] It is a Grade I listed building. [2] The abbot's kitchen has been described as "one of the best preserved medieval kitchens in Europe". [3]