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Food in Medieval Times. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. ISBN 0-313-32147-7. Bynum, Caroline Walker (1987). Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-05722-8. Carlin, Martha; Rosenthal, Joel T., eds. (1998). Food and Eating in Medieval Europe. London: The ...
Queen Esther and King Ahasuerus depicted dining on, among other things, a fish dish and a pretzel; illustration from Hortus deliciarum, Alsace, late 12th century.. Though various forms of dishes consisting of batter or dough cooked in fat, like crêpes, fritters and doughnuts were common in most of Europe, they were especially popular among Germans and known as krapfen (Old High German: "claw ...
The Stratford feast in the 15th century took place on a meat day, but based on expenditures it appears that some persons chose to eat fish. Wheat was purchased, sometimes in amounts over five quarters (perhaps 60 kg), to bake (sometimes very large) loaves of bread, though by the second half of the 15th century the bread was baked by local bakers instead of at the guild's bakehouse.
Tudor food is the food consumed during the Tudor period of English history, from 1485 through to 1603. A common source of food during the Tudor period was bread, which was sourced from a mixture of rye and wheat. Meat was eaten from Sundays to Thursdays, and fish was eaten on Fridays and Saturdays and during Lent. [1]
Snapdragon was a popular game at Christmas, and Carroll's mention of frumenty shows it was known to him as a holiday food. [ citation needed ] It also appears in a girl's recitation of holiday traditions, in My Lady Ludlow , published 1858, by Elizabeth Gaskell : "furmenty on Mothering Sunday, Violet cakes in Passion Week" (Chapter 2).
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.
8. Pugs Made Their Grand European Debut. For thousands of years, pugs were beloved in ancient China and held in high regard by Chinese imperial royalty.
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