Posted on 05/17/2019 8:03:53 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
They had a whey with curds.................
I bet they didn’t survive on tofu and bean sprouts...
I nice Bowl of Pottage
and a Fresh loaf of bread
Is all the Ancestors wanted.
I was Happy with a In-n-Out
Double-Double last nite.
I appreciate modern culinary offerings.
but only when they had spiders as guests as the seating went - jester boy girl spider ....
They ate whatever they could hunt, gather, raise or grow. Why waste time and money with this so-called research? It just supplements the same crew who invent things like global warming- oops, now it’s climate change- to keep money flowing in their direction.
In King Arthurs Britain they used to eat Spamalot
Heck yeah! My fave is the 4x4...our ancestors are welcome to keep the potage.
Weekly Digest list ping. Other recent topics (since the 8th):
BS, vegetables do not grow in cold snow.
Interesting. However, this research is only based on one village, called West Cotton. Hopefully they’ll get around to doing the same procedure in other villages and get a bigger picture.
There’s a youtube series on this. Medieval peasants ate what would now be found at your typical upscale trendy gastro-pub today
a lot of fish
rabbit
cured pork, particularly cheap cuts
greens
whole grain bread
ale
spices, which were extremely expensive, were only what they could find locally - thinks like wild onions, sorrel, rosemary (depending on climate)
they actually ate better (more healthily) than nobles.
Very interesting. Plus, since they didn’t have refrigerators and microwaves, their food was probably a lot fresher than ours.
We call it “cottage cheese”.
Sounds a lot like my diet....
Does that make me a medieval peasant?
We’re often told that medieval peasants had bad teeth. However, an archaeologist in Germany said the contrary, said they had better teeth than people today.
No, just a healthy one...........
It’s news that peasants ate pottage???
Here's a few topics from the Archaeologica page that I've not posted, some I probably won't, some I just can't get to load on this machine. At least some of them may be of interest to people who enjoy history, archaeology, and general science.
Teeth health condition is inversely proportional to the amount of wheat and grain products consumed.................
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