New and Improved Food of the Renaissance

By: Tate Myers

Meals per DayMeals per DayUPPER CLASSUPPER CLASS• BREAKFAST - FOOD AND DRINK GENERALLY SERVED

BETWEEN 6 -7

• DINNER - FOOD AND DRINK GENERALLY SERVED AT MID-MORNING BETWEEN 12 - 2

• SUPPER - WAS A SUBSTANTIAL MEAL AND FOOD AND DRINK WAS GENERALLY SERVED BETWEEN 6 -7 AND ACCOMPANIED BY VARIOUS FORMS OF ENTERTAINMENT

• LOWER CLASSLOWER CLASS

• THREE MEALS A DAY BUT THEY WERE NOT AS ELABORATE AS UPPER CLASS’S

Utensils/SilverwareUtensils/Silverware

Upper class• Ate from

silverware

Lower class• Wood and/or

horn dishes

Pots, pans. skillets, and cauldrons were all used in the kitchen.

Scissors, spoons and ladles are also useful in food preparation.

They used baking trays crafted from hardened pastry for baking.

MeatMeat• Consumed by the upper class• Sold at large markets while other foods were

sold at smaller markets• People preferred it over an open fire• Variety of ways to cook not just meat but fish

and poultry as well including spit roasting, baking, boiling, smoking, salting, or thru frying

• Smoking of the meat was meant to preserve the meat

• The kitchen in large houses and castles were often far away from the dining hall so the food was usually served cold

The PresentationThe Presentation

• They treasured their foods and were very elegant in presenting them

• Peacocks were domesticated not only for the poultry, but for the feathers as well because they used the feathers to decorate the serving of food

Fruits/vegetables/anything Fruits/vegetables/anything grows outsidegrows outside

• Introduction of agricultural techniques made obtaining food during this time period very easy

• Greens• Roots• Herbs• Fruits• Nuts• Vegetables

DrinksDrinks• Alcoholic beverages were very popular but

wine and ale were among the most popular• Higher class drank both wine and ale while

the lower class drank just ale • A drink called mead was established during

this time period and drunk by people of all classes

• Mead’s main ingredient is honey• Average lower class Elizabethan had one pint

of beer a day• A Tudor soldier had about 2/3 gallons of beer

each day• Beer had a low alcohol content

Sources

• http://www.folger.edu/template.cfm?cid=1774

• http://www.elizabethanenglandlife.com/the-elegance-in-every-elizabethan-england-food.html

• http://www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/