Essay On The Elizabethan Era

Life during the Elizabethan Era was less sophisticated than today, and the life expectancy rates were low due to illness and malnutrition. For the upper class, with its more varied diet, life might be longer, but the poor suffered nutritionally due to money shortages. For these reasons, during the Elizabethan Era, food, nutrition, and accessibility were completely based on social class. Although food is for nutrition and diet, during the Elizabethan Era the rich ate out of luxury. For example, Elizabethans of higher class would eat from silverware, while the lower class would eat from wood or horn (Alchin. “Elizabethan Daily Meals.”). The wealthy class drank and ate from gold, silver, and glass, which accompanied their newly found foods (“Elizabethan Era foods and Recipes”).
Upon the Tudor period, more foods were introduced as they were discovered in the New World. These newly discovered foods were kept as special delicacies when the Elizabethans didn 't know how to cook them (Crouch;Sharnette). Desserts during this period were very popular, in which …show more content…
In eating breakfast many people wanted a fine diet.” Instead of regular bread, manchettes were often eaten and accompanied by butter. Eggs were another common food item for breakfast being eaten sunny side up or scrambled. Pancakes which were a mixture of eggs and flour and garnished with strawberry or grape jam were sunday morning treats(Crouch et al). “An elizabethan dinner usually consisted of several types of fish,... venison, various salads, sweet meats and fruits.”Dinner table guests were able to choose between roast beef, powdered beef, veal and a leg of mutton with a galadine sauce(Crouch et al).The midday meal in an upper classmen home contained food like sausage, cabbage and porridge for children. People in middle and lower classes ate potages, stews, fish and vegetables. Potages were primarily made from cereals and large weeds (Crouch et