It wasn’t all porridge in back in the Renaissance, especially not for the middle to upper classes. Most people ate things similar to what may be prepared in households around the United States and Europe today. While they didn’t have some of the modern conveniences that we have today, you might be surprised, as we were, what they did and didn’t have.
Going into this project Moriah and myself thought that this was going to be very easy, we were very sadly mistaken. As we began to research traditional Renaissance cooking and ingredients we were shocked to find out that they didn’t have something so simple that it is used in just about everything served at every modern American dinner table. Black Pepper. We had no idea that Europe didn’t have