Elizabethan Food Starters

They certainly loved their food and there were some new inventions and sugar was more frequently used during this era.

Elizabethan food starters. Turnips parsnips carrots lettuce cucumbers cabbage onions leeks spinach radishes garlic and skirret a popular root vegetable of the time. The elizabethan did not eat much differently than many societies do today. They would have been small so i chose cornish hens. An array of meat and fish dishes such as venison wild boar salmon and pike.

Other appetizers included eel liver and currant pate with a taste of nutmeg eel and onion pie currants and onion pie herring and fruit pie and pickled herring baked in a double crust with fruits. Henry iv part ii chicken was a popular food in shakespeare s time but they weren t tripped out on growth hormones like they are today. An elizabethan cookbook some pigeons davy a couple of short legg d hens tell william cook. White cake filled with strawberry butter cream fresh strawberries and finished with vanilla buttercream.

Savory and sweet tarts and pastries. They were dressed with oil vinegar and sometimes sugar. Roast gravy with apple gravy pg 5. Salads were eaten often comprising a mixture of cooked and raw ingredients and including green vegetables such as leeks onions radishes and cabbage as well as lettuce chives boiled carrots flowers and herbs.

Stewed lamb with carrots pg 1. Elegant food jam tarts food history sweet cakes food tool vintage recipes elizabethan recipes christmas food tart lattice top tarts and their precursors john thacker s 1758 marrow pudding or poudin de mouëlle formée with its ornate cut cover a few days ago a researcher working on a tv ba. Some of the vegetables available to them were. Exotic presentations of unusual birds such as swans and peacocks.

Roasted chicken with veal and pistachio pg 7. The elizabethans also ate fruit and vegetables. So it was not uncommon on special occasions much like today to see fresh baked pies at many of the festivals held throughout england each year. But perhaps the elizabethans simply enjoyed the taste of sugar and ginger and cinnamon with cream in a pudding and oranges sugar cloves mace pepper and more cinnamon with a chicken.

Some kind of pottage.