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In the middle ages the food was cooked in big pots either on hot cols or under heated rocks.
Fire existed long before electricity, and they also used some really nifty chemistry tricks as well (for rising bread, etc). In order to make the ovens used for bread-baking, by the way, took nearly 250 man-hours.
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What did poor people do on their plots of land in the middle ages?
Cooked, farmed, served, and worked
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The things that were stolen in the middle ages were mainly food that was stolen by the poor and there were organised gangs that would steel from the rich.
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a serf is a person who worked on the lord manor and make food
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