Anglo Saxon Food Recipes Ks2

Instruction to help you make a traditional anglo saxon honey shortbread.

Anglo saxon food recipes ks2. Ks2 history anglo saxons learning resources for adults children parents and teachers. Put all the ingredients in a bowl. Most anglo saxons were largely vegetarian. Anglo saxon food stuffs fruit figs and grapes small apples crab apples plums cherries and sloes vegetables wheat rye oats and barley carrots welsh carrots.

Wash the fish and place in a pan with the water and salt. Summer fruit honey and hazelnut crumble. Their favourite meats included deer and wild boar which they roasted over a fire in the middle of their houses. Anglo saxon food recipes for ks2.

They ate their meat with bread and washed their meal down with beer. They liked beef and mutton too but there does not seem to have been much british hunting. Pupils will design an anglo saxon menu and have the opportunity to make and taste anglo saxon honey bread. This lesson allows pupils to think about the foods they like and compare them to the foods available in anglo saxon britain both in terms of everyday meals and feasting foods.

They grew wheat to make flour for bread and barley to make beer. After the feast a minstrel would play a harp and sing songs of battles and heroes. To find out which foods were available in anglo saxon times. Protein came mostly from eggs chicken duck goose butter cheese and fish.

This resource pack contains delicious anglo saxon food recipes for. Honey oats and spice cakes. Put all the ingredients in a bowl. The food was cooked over the fire in the middle of the house.

To follow an anglo saxon recipe for. The anglo saxons enjoyed food and drink and often held big feasts. Meat was roasted and eaten with bread. They ate a mix of vegetables including onions peas parsnips and cabbage.

Ingredients the head of a large fish 1 small haddock 2 teaspoons salt pepper 2 tablespoons flour cup of milk 1 litre of cold water method 1. Chicken stew with herbs and barley. Anglo saxons ate what. Mix well until you have a dough.

Boil and skim the froth off the top. They drank ale and mead a kind of beer made sweet with honey from great goblets and drinking horns. Pork also seems to have been very popular amongst the british. Or parsnips cabbages burdock and rape onions and leeks wild garlic legumes peas and beans herbs and spices ginger cinnamon cloves mace and pepper.