Water In The Middle Ages

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Fun fact: In the middle ages they could not drink water because it was so polluted. It was hard for the poor they did not get to drink a lot. They drank ale, mead or cider. But the rich could drink many types of wines.
They usually ate meat and bread. They had a huge range of meat to eat. They would eat pork, lamb, bear, hedgehog, and rabbit. And they also ate fish like herring, salmon, whiting, cod, trout, and pike. They also ate shellfish which included crab, oysters, and mussels.
People who lived by the coast normally ate seafood and they would also trade the food. The pike were ate by the lower end of the people.Trout and salmon was ate by the richer end of the people but above all the carp.
They also ate lots of vegetables which consisted of lettuce, carrots, artichokes, peas, asparagus, onions, and garlic. They had a lot of vegetables. The onions and garlic would be ate by the rich end of the people dried vegetables would be ate by the ordinary population of the people.
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The poor had to cook over an open fire. The dried vegetables consisted of carrots and peas. They were not all dried some were fresh.
They would make cookbooks that would have anywhere from 196 to 200 recipes
It was a hard time for the poor they barely ate or drank. The poor didn't get to eat or drink much because they couldn't afford

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