Elizabethan Food In The 1950's

The elizabethan era food was very different from social classes. The upper class had more available food and imported things like spices while the lower class were stuck with the lower end items. In the elizabethan era though, there were many more people living in poverty. In the 1950’s there were poor harvests. This led to starvation and this had a very bad effect on the economy. The elizabethan era food differed between the social classes. The upper class had very many delicacies. The wealthy mainly ate meat and sweets. Sugar, honey, and marzipan were very popular ingredients and were used to make many cakes and pastries. Lamb, Beef, and pork were also some of the main dishes for the upper class. These meats would be cooked many different ways. For example, split roasting, smoking and fried. The upper and lower class also ate different breads. The upper class would eat manchet, which is bread made of wheat flour. The lower class would eat bread made of rye and barley. The wealthy would often have feasts. These which included many sweets and meat and all of the food was served with “props”. The presentation was very important to them so they would put, for example, peacock feathers on their dishes to liven up the dish. The upper class would eat

The water was not clean in the era so they mostly drank wine and ale. The wines were mostly sweet and they often still had grapes and things in them. You would have to drain it before you drank it. Ales contained some bitter flavor but they had very low alcohol content. The upper class would drink both and the lower class would just drink ale. One person would consume about a gallon of ales a day. There was two other kinds of drinks that they would drink just not as often. One of them was a sweet alcoholic drink called mead which was really just water and honey sometimes with fruits and spices in it. The other was called “apple-wine” and it was just a form of