Tudors - Food Preservation
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How the Tudors kept their food fresh through the winter.
Food preservation - Tudor style. How the Tudors preserved food in their kitchens. In the days before fridges keeping food fresh through the winter was seen as a major problem; the Tudors developed their own methods.
From:
Zig Zag Tudor Life Food A Housewife's Story
First broadcast
:
05 October 1998
Teachers' notes
Age Group : 7-9
Subject : History
Topic : Tudors and Stuarts
Keywords : Tudors, Tudor food, Tudor kitchen,
Notes : Can use clip to look at Tudor eating habits - how would pupils like to eat then? How did the Tudors solve the problems of keeping food for the winter? What foods were more at risk?
