num_pages: 202
description: Have you ever wondered what the Tudors ate? What was served at the courtly feasts of Henry VIII or what kept peasants alive through the harsh winters of the sixteenth century?The Tudor Cookbook provides over 250 recipes from authentic period manuals for starters mains desserts and drinks from chicken blancmange to white pease pottage with seal and porpoise. It even covers vegetarian dishes  the Tudors designed dishes of vegetables to look like meat to be cooked during religious festivals when abstinence from meat was required. A few of the more outlandish ingredients and methods of cooking are now illegal but the rest of the recipes have been trialled; many are delicious and surprising.
language: English
title: The Tudor Cookbook: From Gilded Peacock to Calves Feet Pie
publisher: Amberley Publishing