What was medieval food like?

Ive always wondered about bread? Was making a lavining agent really that difficult? Rye was fucking everywhere, was that just for stock and the soil?

Depends on location

>Breakfast
Porridge with some honey and milk if you were lucky
>Lunch
Sourdough bread (probably not wheat flour unless you were a macdaddy) with fava beans and onion and some ale
>Dinner
Trout / Cod / Shitty cut of game with kale and onions, washed down with some ale

This is upper middle class btw

>Salted and pickled everything

unironically lots of almonds

Well if you were a christain its highly likely you werent allowed to eat meat or dairy (christains dont see fish as meat) for 100 days.

>tfw medieval food that was for poor people is now considered traditional and national cuisine and respected

>or dairy
Since when has cheese not been allowed?

Dinner ment lunch back then you faggit, and most people only had 2 meals a day, one dinner and one supper.

were they activated?

I remember being taught it in school (catholic, but a wierd kind of english catholic), during lent and advent you couldnt eat meat (dairy is considered meat for some reason), and most churches just joined the period between lent and advent so it was around 100 days.
Im sure it wasnt very common to do this, seeing as you have ploughmans lunches and god knows how many germanic meals containing milk.

Sorta, it was an early way to thicken stuff. Almond powder was the same as corn flour back in the day. Only way more expensive.

Lent is 40 days long

Dairy does not count as meat

Source: am catholic

Well im a different kind of catholic and I hate you!!!

Gonna make a list, feel free to add shit (only if really common)
Fish:
>Trout
>Herring
>Eel
>Crawfish
>Oysters
>Mussels
>Cockles
>Periwinkles

Cereals:
>Oats (porridge and oatcakes, as well as bulking up stuff like haggis)
>Rye (bread for poor people)
>Wheat (bread for upper class people)
>Hopps (booze)
>Barley (booze and stews)

Vegetables:
>Onions
>Kale
>Fava beans
>Artichokes
>Cabbage
>Chard
>Leeks
>Spinach
>Carrots
>Parsnips
>Gourds
>Turnips???

Fruits and nuts:
>Melons
>Strawberrys
>Raspberrys
>Apples
>Blackberrys??
>Oranges
>Lemons
>Peaches
>Cherries
>Apricots
>Currents
>Pomegranite
>Almonds (apparently these were a big deal)
>Chestnuts
>Acorns
>Hazelnuts
>Walnuts

Animals and Game:
>Deer
>Pigeon
>Phesant
>Ducks
>Chickens
>Sheep
>Cattle
>Pigs
>Rabbits

What is sushi

salty milk and sand coins

............................I'm in.

Like today's food, but medieval.

So my cheese and onion chips that im eating are just a ploughmans lunch?
Mind fucking blown.

Depends on local agriculture and what is cheap.

is a good list, it seems to be describing Spain, Italy or southern France where some of those fruits might be available. Other grains might be rice or millet.

Mixed in with oats, wheat, barley and rye would be wild grains, grasses, weeds and ergot (LSD fungus) swept up when a field was gleaned or from the peasant's own small plots on poorer land. Crop rotation meant an ample supply of beans and peas which could be mixed in with the grain with other vegetables to make pottage. An active agricultural laborer could consume 1 to 2 lbs of pottage and bread a day. To add flavor to such a high volume, onions, garlic, radishes, leeks and other strong flavors were preferred.

You were unlikely to be born in a place where cattle was a major source of calories so meat would likely be rare. When an animal was culled the choice cuts went to the wealthy while sinews, leather, large bones and horn went to the artisans leaving peasants with a collection of offal to get creative with resulting in sausages and such.

>raw fish and rice

Sounds pretty poor to me.

>You were unlikely to be born in a place where cattle was a major source of calories so meat would likely be rare.
Farmyard animals were a thing. Chickens, geese etc. Also pigs, never forget pigs.

Autism

People ate lots of legumes

Are you portuguese?

i actually like salted and pickeld food so that sounds nice

yes

How does it feel to be the only user in the thread to not know what OP meant you insufferable smartass?