Shakesperean foods?

Question

I am doing a high school project and I need to make a food they would eat during that age of Shakespeare. I want one that is relatively easy and won't cost a lot to buy the ingredients. I have many common spices here at home. I would prefer it was more like a dessert also because I would have to let it sit for 12 hours or more to eat it after making it.

Answer 1

Believe it or not, a very typical food from that time period would have been mincemeat, with meat in it. Rich people used so much spices - because they were imported and expensive - that they had terrible indigestion a lot. Roasted meats of all kinds, whole grain or heavier bread, and honey cakes were common.

Answer 2

maybe these will help:

http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/food.html

http://www.twingroves.district96.k12.il....

http://nicholasacademy.com/marfood.html

http://www.godecookery.com/afeast/afeast...

Answer 3

This is easy & inexpensive (buy the almonds from Sam's Club, Costco, Bjs...)

Honey Roasted Almonds

2 cups whole almonds, skin on

1/4 cup sugar

1/2 tsp. salt

2 Tbs. honey

2 Tbs. water

2 tsp. almond or vegetable oil  

Spread the almonds in a single layer in a shallow ungreased baking pan and place in cold oven. Bake at 350º F degrees, stirring occasionally, until the internal color of the nuts is tan to light brown, 12 to 15 minutes. (Keep in mind that the nuts will continue roast a little more after they are removed from the oven.) Set the roasted almonds aside. Thoroughly mix the sugar and salt. Stir together the honey, water and oil in a medium-size saucepan and bring to a boil over medium heat. Stir in the roasted almonds and continue to cook and stir until all of the liquid has been absorbed by the nuts, about 5 minutes. Immediately transfer the almonds to a medium-size bowl into which some sugar mixture has been sprinkled. Sprinkle the remaining sugar mixture over the almonds and toss until they are evenly coated. Spread the almonds out on wax paper. When cool, store at room temperature in a tightly covered container or plastic bag for up to two weeks.

Makes 2 cups.

Answer 4

the cooking style during that period is really c**p cos all the spices was not available so they had to season their meat with salt and herds from the garden ...corn and tomatoes was not available then also

roasted pork...

1 pork roll( get it from your local butcher .. mentioned that you wanna roast pork)

fresh herds ( rosemary)

1 cup honey

salt

2 green apples.

marinate your pork with honey and salt and rosemary (chopped finely) ...... add apples inbetween the rolls let the apple cook with the pork..  and roast it in an oven for 230 degree C. for 1-2 hours ...

gravy : use the juice from the pork and add flour to it , stir over a heat and.add wine or beer to turn it into a sauce. add salt to taste

veg :

boil carrots and  parsnip ... boil and salted add butter

cabbage , boil and salted with butter

for dessert

3 cups assortment of berries

2 table spoon gelatin powder

white grape juice / red grape juice

1 1/2 cup sugar

a few cups for serving

mix berries with sugar, place over the heat add the grape juice with gelatin powder. until mixture boils and all sugar dissolve..pour over your cups and chilled in the fridge for 8 hours ...