New and Improved Food of the Renaissance By: Tate Myers

Meals per Day UPPER CLASS BREAKFAST - FOOD AND DRINK GENERALLY SERVED BETWEEN 6 -7 DINNER - FOOD AND DRINK GENERALLY SERVED AT MID-MORNING BETWEEN SUPPER - WAS A SUBSTANTIAL MEAL AND FOOD AND DRINK WAS GENERALLY SERVED BETWEEN 6 -7 AND ACCOMPANIED BY VARIOUS FORMS OF ENTERTAINMENT LOWER CLASSLOWER CLASS THREE MEALS A DAY BUT THEY WERE NOT AS ELABORATE AS UPPER CLASS’S

Utensils/Silverware Upper class Ate from silverware Lower class Wood and/or horn dishes Pots, pans. skillets, and cauldrons were all used in the kitchen. Scissors, spoons and ladles are also useful in food preparation. They used baking trays crafted from hardened pastry for baking.

Meat Consumed by the upper class Sold at large markets while other foods were sold at smaller markets People preferred it over an open fire Variety of ways to cook not just meat but fish and poultry as well including spit roasting, baking, boiling, smoking, salting, or thru frying Smoking of the meat was meant to preserve the meat The kitchen in large houses and castles were often far away from the dining hall so the food was usually served cold

The Presentation They treasured their foods and were very elegant in presenting them Peacocks were domesticated not only for the poultry, but for the feathers as well because they used the feathers to decorate the serving of food

Fruits/vegetables/anything grows outside Introduction of agricultural techniques made obtaining food during this time period very easy Greens Roots Herbs Fruits Nuts Vegetables

Drinks Alcoholic beverages were very popular but wine and ale were among the most popular Higher class drank both wine and ale while the lower class drank just ale A drink called mead was established during this time period and drunk by people of all classes Mead’s main ingredient is honey Average lower class Elizabethan had one pint of beer a day A Tudor soldier had about 2/3 gallons of beer each day Beer had a low alcohol content

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