This is just one possibility of a morning scenario during the Elizabethan age. If you were a cook you were already working hard at making the food for people at court. If you were prosperous you were still asleep, not waking until 9 or 10 in the morning at which time you would be dressed and fed by people of lesser society.

Since breakfast was not considered a meal, lunch and dinner were the only meals officially taken part in. But these meals were called something different from what we call them. Our dinner was called supper by the Elizabethan people and our lunch was called dinn

As for snacking, Elizabethans didn’t have much variety in their choices. There was of course no “Frito Lay” or “Nabisco” or even a “Hershey’s” company back then. That’s right they did not even have chocolate. The only thing remotely similar to chocolate in the Elizabethan age was a thin, bitter, medicinal drink made without milk or sugar. The only reason it was similar to chocolate is because it was made from the cocoa bean.

Another food that Elizabethan’s excessively ate was bread. There were many different kinds of bread that people made and ate. Some types of bread included Manchet, a very fine wheat bread made from wheat flour, Raveled bread, made from coarser whole wheat flour with the bran left in, Yeoman’s bread, similar to raveled bread, and Carters bread, Ravel flour with the “grossest part of the grain extracted that makes a brown household bread agreeable enough for laborers”.

People even ate bread when they were on diets; in fact, a dieting Elizabethan’s menu consisted of black bread, milk, cheese, and eggs. Although fruits and nuts were also popular such as apples, plums, lemons, sloes, dates, oranges, currants, apricots, melons, sesame, wardons, almonds, strawberries, limes, g

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