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The Tudor kitchen : what the Tudors ate & drank / Terry Breverton.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Breverton, Terry, 1946- author.
Contributor:
Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.
Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Cooking, English--History--16th century.
Cooking, English.
Cooking--Great Britain--History--16th century.
Cooking.
Food habits--England--History--16th century.
Food habits.
History.
England--Social life and customs--16th century.
England.
Manners and customs.
Great Britain.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:
351 pages : illustrations, 14 leaves of plates ; 24 cm
Place of Publication:
Stroud, Great Britain : Amberley Publishing, [2015]
Summary:
"Did you ever wonder what the Tudors ate and drank? What was Anne Boleyn's favorite tipple? Which pies did Henry VIII gorge on to go from a 32 to a 54-inch waist? The Tudor Cookbook provides a new history of the Tudor kitchen, and of both the sumptuous - and more everyday - recipes enjoyed by rich and poor, all taken from authentic contemporary sources. The kitchens of the Tudor palaces were equipped to feed a small army of courtiers, visiting dignitaries and various hangers-on of the aristocracy. Tudor court food purchases in just one year were no less than 8,200 sheep, 2,330 deer and 53 wild boar, plus countless birds such as swan (and cygnet), peacock, heron, capon, teal, gull, and shoveler. Tudor feasting was legendary, Henry VIII even managed to impress the French at the Field of the Cloth of Gold in 1520 with a twelve-foot marble and gold leaf fountain dispensing claret and white wine into silver cups, free for all!" -- Publisher description.
Contents:
Part 1: The Tudor diet. Tudor farming
Tudor food
Tudor drink
Tudor kitchens and Hampton Court
Tudor etiquette at table, the waist of Henry VIII, progresses, banquets, sumptuary laws and glutton mass. Part 2. Tudor recipes. First courses
Main courses
Side dishes
Sweets
Snacks
Preserves, spices and sauces
Dishes you may not want to cook (or eat) (or see)
Drinks
Tudor, medieval recipe books. List of illustrations.
Local Notes:
Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.
ISBN:
1445648741
9781445648743
OCLC:
921939820

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