Feasts in middle ages

We know a little about art of cookery of those times

• When the noble people(seniors) live in castles and have knights to protect themselves

• Literature, mainly epos, and some paintings can give us some knowledge of what food they used to eat.

The main food of rich people was meat

• Hunting

• Poultry

Kinds of meat

• Pork (pigs), different kinds of deer, wild boar( кабан), fermale quail( перепелка), pheasant( фазан), partridge (курапатка), goose, chicken, peacock, swan etc.

• But they never eat horse flesh because horses were used for work, lamb because sheep they gave wool and ducks because they were supposed uneaten those times.

Fish• They also eat a lot of fish

• Fresh, salted, smoked

They also have different pies and bread, even some tasty and

sweety thing!!

Feasts lasted for about 1,5-2

hours

• There were wine yards everywhere as the most popular drink was wine.

• Fruit

Guests and hosts could eat fruit in the gardens during going outs for a walk.

Culture of Feasts

• Always only white table cloth• No forks, no spoons, only knives• Meat were put on a big piece of bread• Liquid food served in a bowl with handles for two persons, they could sip it

in turn• For wine there were a wine bowl (cup)

Often there were actors

Работу выполнил

Ученики 6 в класса

ГОУ «лицей» № 533Учителя Кужела Е.Э.Шевкуненко И.Е.

Санкт-Петербург2013

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