Tudor Food Quiz

Q1) What were "alexanders"?

A vegetable with a flavour between celery and parsley

A grain used to make pottage

A medicinal drink

A root vegetable similar to carrots

Q2) Bread for the peasant class tended to be made of which grain?

Wheat

Rye

Oats

buckwheat

Q3) The main raw ingredient of ale was...

Hops

Wheat

Rye

Barley

Q4) What was manchet?

A rich person's pottage flavoured with spices and almonds

A carving knife

Marzipan

A light white bread made from wheat flour

Q5) According to the sumptuary laws of 1517, how many dishes could a duke/archbishop/marquis/earl/bishop have served at one meal?

Nine

Six

Twelve

Seven

Q6) What proportion of a wealthy man's diet was said to have been made up of vegetables?

20%

10%

30%

40%

Q7) Barnacle geese could be eaten on a fish day because...

They spent most of their time in water.

Their meat tasted "fishy"

It was thought that they did not lay eggs but that their goslings emerged from barnacles

They were very rare

Q8) What was sack?

A dessert made from thick cream seasoned with sugar, ginger and rose-water.

A type of salad

A light ale

A type of sherry

Q9) What was a buffet?

A piece of furniture which was a cross between a sideboard and a Welsh dresser

A banquet organised by a livery company

A feast of cold cuts and cold dishes

A metal container used for cooling wine

Q10) Wynkyn de Worde's "Book of Carving" gave terms for carving specific meats and fish. What was the term for carving "that pike"?

Splay

Alay

Culpon

Splat

Q11) What were you supposed to do with food you hadn't eaten at a feast?

Feed it to your dog

Put it on the "voider"

Place it back on the serving dish

Offer it to another diner

Q12) If you had to blow your nose at the table, what were you supposed to do?

Use your napkin

Use the tablecloth

Just sniff and do it later

Use your hand and then wipe it on your clothing

Q13) Who wrote that the napkin should be placed over your left shoulder or your left wrist?

Henry VIII

Wynkyn de Worde

Erasmus

Elizabeth I