To find out what food was like in Tudor times we prepared our own from Tudor recipes. Everyone got a chance to help with cooking and baking - and we did our own tidying and washing up afterwards!
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| Peeling vegetables for the potage.Thankfully no cuts from the knives and peelers! |
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| Preparing the spicy apple tarts |
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| These biscuits are called lover's knots! |
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| Not much left of the potage by the time we remembered to take a photo! |
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| We had to use plastic plates and cutlery so the colours were a bit bright and not very Tudor! Don't worry the wine was just grape juice! |
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| Waiting for grace to be said. |
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| Ready to eat. |
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| In costume! |
We learned a Tudor dance called The Old Mole and danced it after we had eaten our food.
Here is one version.
Afterwards Emma read us a special type of poem written by William Shakespeare. It is called a sonnet. A sonnet has 14 lines and follows a particular pattern of rhymes and rhythm.
