Food in England
by Dorothy Hartley · first published 1954
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Although it covers other historical periods, it seems remiss of the article to not mention Hartley’s Food in England: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_in_England If you like your geese by the dozen, packed upside down in a wooden barrel filled with clarified butter, it is a must-read.
on “How to cook a medieval feast: recipes from the Middle Ages” ↗…content. Sometimes I travel to Ithaca which has a cider store that sells a number of European ciders. Surprisingly a lot are 2.5% to 5.4%. Mead was also drank but I'm not sure it's popularity. If you read Food in England by Dorethy Hartley; beet wine, turnip wine and carrot wine were all being made too. I have a recipe for parsley root wine that I keep meaning to try whenever I have them fresh from the garden.
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