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    The document summarizes Tudor period food, noting that without modern transportation and freezing, the Tudors relied on fresh, seasonal food. It provides examples of meals that would have been eaten by the rich, including roasted meats, pies and vegetables. For the poor, a herb-flavored soup called pottage served with bread was more common. Meat made up three-quarters of the typical Tudor diet and was prepared through roasting, boiling or making into pies, while fish was prepared in various ways. Bread always accompanied meals.

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    The document summarizes Tudor period food, noting that without modern transportation and freezing, the Tudors relied on fresh, seasonal food. It provides examples of meals that would have been eaten by the rich, including roasted meats, pies and vegetables. For the poor, a herb-flavored soup called pottage served with bread was more common. Meat made up three-quarters of the typical Tudor diet and was prepared through roasting, boiling or making into pies, while fish was prepared in various ways. Bread always accompanied meals.

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    The document summarizes Tudor period food, noting that without modern transportation and freezing, the Tudors relied on fresh, seasonal food. It provides examples of meals that would have been eaten by the rich, including roasted meats, pies and vegetables. For the poor, a herb-flavored soup called pottage served with bread was more common. Meat made up three-quarters of the typical Tudor diet and was prepared through roasting, boiling or making into pies, while fish was prepared in various ways. Bread always accompanied meals.

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    Food in the Tudor Period

    Food could not be transported, nor could it be frozen. The Tudors therefore relied on fresh food. The menu below shows what the rich people would have eaten. Poor people would have eaten a herb-flavoured soup called pottage which would be served with bread.
    A Sixteenth Century Dinner First Course Brawn Roast Tongue Leg of Pork Roast Beef Roast Venison Meat Pie Vegetables in season Bread Second Course Roast Lamb Rabbit Bread Tarts and Custard

    Facts about Tudor Food The Tudors could keep the animals they There was no fresh drinking water and used for food alive, so meat was so ale was drunk with a meal. The very available all year round rich may have wine. Fruit and vegetables could only be eaten when they were in season Potatoes were not introduced to the UK until Elizabeth's reign and then would only have been available to the rich Three-quarters of the Tudor diet was made up of meat - oxen, deer, calves, pigs or wild boar. They also ate a lot of chicken and other birds - pigeons, sparrows and peacocks.

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    Meat was roasted, boiled or made into The Catholic religion of the early Tudors pies. Fish was baked, fried, grilled or meant that they could not eat meat on a boiled. Friday and often not on a Wednesday. Tudor food was served in a sauce Bread was always served with a meal flavoured with herbs and spices.

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