Top Five Elizabethan Era Foods and Drinks Blog
Top Five Elizabethan Era Foods and Drinks Blog Ah, food. The one thing every human loves, some more than others. The rich get the red meat, and the fancy poultry like swan and geese, and the poor get bread, soup and chicken. Peasant food 1563 Colourized 5. Bread Everybody eats bread. Poor or rich, young or old, boy or girl. Everyone eats bread. From the 1500s to 2018 bread is still enjoyed by billions of people around the world. 4. Fish Fish days were common during the Elizabethan era. “Elizabeth made a law in 1563 that compelled everyone to eat fish on Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays” (Sharnette, 1988-2018). Mostly rich people ate fish but poor people were forced to because of this law. The fish they ate included freshwater and sea fish, such as salmon, trout, eel, pike, and sturgeon, and shellfish such as crabs, lobsters, oysters, cockles and mussels. (Sharnette, 1988-2018). 3. Goose The rich ate geese. Geese. Of all poultry they eat Canada’