What food was eaten in medieval times?

Answer 1

Bread, wine, beer, carrots, parsnips, cabbage, peas, beans, onions, garlic, leek ( spices include: ginger, cinnamon, cloves mace, pepper, coriander, dill, thyme, opium poppy and summer savoury) Fruit: apples (crab apples) plums, cherries and sloes. Honey was used to make a sweet alcoholic drink called mead. erring, salmon and eel as well as some which are not eaten much today such as pike, perch and roach. They seem to have also eaten flounder, whiting, plaice, cod and brown trout too. Shellfish, especially oysters, mussels and cockles, seem to have formed part of many peoples diets. Fish was eaten fresh, but was also preserved for less plentiful times of year. This was done by salting, pickling, smoking and drying. Pig, cow, goat, sheep

Answer 2

the rich would mainly eat meat eg: bustard, beaver,rabbit,ect. they would drink cider , beer, and wine all the time.so did the peasants but they ate black bread and vegetables. there were no potatoes, other than that every other veg existed they would eat this as soup and would have fruit for desert whereas the rich would have pies.

Answer 3

dried cod, ship's biscuits ,cheese,salted meat,raisins,chick peas,rice,honeycomb,garlic,lentils and almonds