Tudor Meals

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Exploration into Tudor cookery.

Reconstruction of Tudor cooking - shows recipes explaining why there was a heavy reliance on meat and not many vegetables.
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 recipes, Tudor cookery,

Notes : The clip can be used to look at Tudor eating habits - How would pupils of today like Tudor food? Why wasn't there much fruit and vegetables eaten? Would meals in the houses of the poor have been different?


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