Henry VIII`s Banquet Menu Nathan
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Henry VIII’s
Banquet Menu
First course
100 whole roast pigs with mustard
3,500 spicy roast larks
300 salted saltwater fish
Second course
1,200 roasted cockatrice (front half of cockerel
sewn onto back half of piglet)
60 whole roasted swans with cloves
300 eel pies with garlic purée
Third course
Venison stew with mead (made with shoulder,
flank and neck)
Sugared lampreys
Wild bird pie (contains live birds and small pie)
Jelly castle
Drinks
Beer
Mead
Spiced wine
Sherry
Cider
Sweets and Confections
Cheesecake
Sugared jumbles (knotted biscuits)
Honeyed fruits
How is Tudor food different from
modern cooking?
Tudor water was polluted
Rich Tudors mainly ate meat
Food was heavily salted to stop it rotting
Then it was flavoured with spices to disguise
the taste
What modern ingredients did they
not have?
Chocolate
White bread
Margarine
Not much fruit
Breakfast cereal
Coffee
What did they use instead?
Honey
Rye bread
Cheese
Curds
beer
Any curious food customs?
You must not blow on food to cool it
Rich people used trenchers (large slabs of
bread), instead of plates
A Tudor feast could last for many hours
Where did ingredients come from?
Farms
Market
Wild food like deer
How was Henry VIII’s food different
from a poor person’s?
He ate meat
A poor person ate vegetables, like turnips
He ate tons of food
A poor person would eat only a small
amount
A poor person would eat the same breakfast
every day (bread or porridge)
Henry VIII ate lots of different types of meat