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picture of a meal.
-Kasey & Caroline

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The banquets and feast enjoyed by the Elizabethan Royalty, Nobility and Upper Classes were lavish. New foods and spices were being imported and unusual recipes were created, making use of the finest foods and ingredients. During these banquets were five courses of food and desserts.
-Caroline

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Very high ranked men had their own dishes, plates, and drinking cups. No napkins were used at this time. When they were done with dinner, the bones were thrown on the ground, not on the plate.
-Sarah

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The two main parts of a normal diet in the elizabethan time were bread and meat. Bread was the most important component of their diets. In the country districts, Rye and Barley bread were eaten.

-Sarah

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Elizabethan food was generally purchased at small markets and fairs. In large cities, there were specific markets which sold either fish, dairy products, or fruit and vegetables.
-Sarah

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Elizabethan food and drink varied according to status and wealth. In the early Medieval era, meat was a sign of wealth.
-Sarah

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It was important that Elizabethan food prepared for the nobility, especially for feasts and banquets had a great visual effect. Elizabethans used a variety of serving methods using colors and various props.
-Sarah

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This attachment has pictures and more explanation. -Kasey

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There were no methods available to freeze foods so Elizabethan food varied according to the season. Animals were slaughtered in the autumn and preserved in salt. The problem was that food had a constant salt taste. Methods were introduced to disguise the salty taste, such as spices and sauces.
-Caroline

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like us in  the time of now they had meals three times a day. a breakfast lunch and dinner. they ate all the vegtables and fruits that we do now but as you could see in the meats section a few of those we probly dont in this day and age.
-Kasey

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*Beef
*Pork
*Lamb
*Bacon
*Deer
*Peacock
*Swan
*goos
*Fresh water Seafood
-Kasey

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People of the Elizabethan era were highly religious and at certain times the eating of meat was banned. Certain religious observances banned the eating of meat on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. Also on the eves of many religious holidays and during the religious seasons of Lent and Advent, meat was declined.
-Caroline.

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The Elizabethan diet of the nobles lacked Vitamin C, calcium, and fiber. This lead to an assortment of health problems such as: bad teeth, skin diseases, scurvy, and rickets.
-Caroline

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Water was not clean. so peaple drinked wine & ale. The poor just drank the ale as wine drank both. Hony was used to make alcohal sweet and called it mead. wich was drank by all classes.
-Kasey

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Most was done over an open flame. Some utensles were pots, pans, skillits, and culdrens. the motar and pestel was the most esential. espeshly it there is nut spices in the recipie.
-Kasey

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The diet of the poor, which consisted of vegetables and fresh fruit, was better than the diet of the nobles. Dairy products being considered as inferior foods, were also only eaten by the poor.
-Caroline

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*Spit Roasting.
*Boiling.
*Baking.
*Smoking.
*Salting.
*Fried
-Kasey.