There are no fasts or dietary requirements - we are saved by God's grace and all our righteousness is as filthy rags, as the prophet says. It is my obligation to try to understand the word of God, and as the head of a house to encourage my family and servants in the same. And yearn for the wine of Bordeaux. We buy bread from the baker and meat from the butcher or the charcuterie. We brew our own beer here, and have a couple chickens in the yard.
Food is cooked in the hearth, in an iron cauldron or redware vessels.
We have no oven, as such. My shirt is made of linen, and the rest of wool, although I have a pair of silk hose. The tailor makes the suit, the seamstress my shirts and linens. They live in town and I visit their shops. The women in this house sometimes put themselves to making and embroidering some bits of linen, but for the most part they are too busy at their trades.