Tudor Era Food. Fish was also a common dish and eaten wholly in place of meat during lent protestant elizabethan england kept up the practice to support fishermen. The food available to the people in britain during the tudor period was far more limited than is available to modern people.
The food available to the people in britain during the tudor period was far more limited than is available to modern people. Dec 2 2018 explore jan creevey s board tudor food on pinterest. The menu below shows what the wealthy would have eaten.
Poor people in the tudor period would eat vegetables bread and whatever meat they could find such as.
Common fish included cod mackerel and herring with more expensive fish being salmon trout and pike amongst many others. Beyond freshness the sort of tudor food consumed was largely determined by one s social class. Poor people in the tudor period would eat vegetables bread and whatever meat they could find such as. The common vegetables used in the tudor period were onions and cabbages but nearer the end of the tudor period new foods were brought over from the americas such as tomatoes potatoes and peppers.