In today's Claire Chats video, I talk about the fruit and vegetables that were enjoyed in the Tudor period.
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- Carrots
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- Alexanders
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- Good King Henry
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- Samphire
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- Norfolk Samphire
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- Salsify
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- Scorzonera (also known as Black Salsify)
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- Seakale
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- Skirrets
Notes and Sources
Skirret picture from https://www.incrediblevegetables.co.uk/, Salsify picture from https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/glossary/salsify.
- Meet skirret, the long-forgotten Tudor vegetable
- Skirrets, the long forgotten vegetable
- Tudor Food
- How to forage and cook Alexanders
- https://natureandnurtureseeds.com/products/good-king-henry
- Breverton, Terry (2015) The Tudor Kitchen: What the Tudors Ate & Drank, Amberley Publishing.
- Sea Kale Growing: Learn About Sea Kale Plants In The Garden
- Samphire, Wikipedia.
Gardens: eat like a Tudor- 1500s Food, British Library.
- Skirret: The forgotten Tudor Vegetable
- Tudor dining: a guide to food and status in the 16th century
- What did people in the Tudor period eat?
- Wolf down a Tudor salad: Henry VIII would have got far more than his five a day thanks to the huge, elaborately garnished salads of the time, says a new book
- Flower Power: Cooking with Violets
- Food in Tudor Times
Thanks for this lovely talk and for answering my question by email and mentioning the sallets in your video of Catherine of Aragon. I will be going to my local grocery store tomorrow and ask for Good King Henry and see what happens. My salads are always made from wild rocket or spinach, a variety of fruit, nuts and herbs. As my diet means I eat a lot of them I am very creative. I will be having a go at a few new ones if I can get the ingredients. Cheers.
We went to a civil war re-enactment and they showed us this vegetable that we don’t grow any more that looked like an artichoke and we (my son and I) cannot find anything about it! Could you tell us what it was?