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=Introduction= In Elizabethan time period food had many purposes of using. There are many differences between high and low classes people. Also, food can be the desciption of what class the people are in. This page (Food and Class)is about the different aspects of the food and classes.

=Difference of Foods in Different Class= =High Class= In Elizabethan time period food had many purposes. The high class ate meats like lamb, beef, mutton, pork, bacon, veal, rabbit, hare, fowl such as peacock, swan, goose, blackbirds and pigeon. Meat was cooked with fruits for flavoring and fruit was only used for flavoring the food. They also ate sweets. In Elizabethan time period there was a development of the use of sugar. This was because the high class could afford it even though it was expansive. Desert was commonly flavored with almond, as vanilla and chocolate were rare. [|(Source 5)] Also there are difference of drink in class too. There were two kinds of drinks in Elizabethan time because the water was unclean. The high class mostly drank wine but they also drank ale. [|(Source 1)] High class ate vegetables such as parsnips, turnips, leeks, carrots, onions, garlic and radishes were eaten. [|(Source11)] In the Elizabethan time period, the high class enjoyed banquets and feasts that were only for royalty and nobility. Upper classes banquet was sumptous and lavishing. There were new kinds of food and ingredients like tomato, potato, turkey and vanila found in America that was introduced and the royal banquet was magnificent. There was 5 courses and the order of the course is meat-meat-dessert-dessert-dessert.[|(Source10)] The banquet was only for the upper class people and the low class people could not participated in the banquet. [|(Source 7)] =Low Class= The low class usually made food which can last longer and can be eaten for a long period of time. The most common foods for the low class were foods like soup, fish, and bread. The low class made soup in order to make a lot of food with little amount of ingredients by boiling the ingredients with water. [|(Source11)] Also, they ate bread and fish because it was cheap and could be kept for a longer time. [|(Source 5)] Low class people mostly drank ale because grape or apple wine was too expencive for them but ale was inexpensive. Ale is made of grain and water, and is fermented with yeast, so ale is cheaper than wine. Also, fish and cheese was considered as a common food. [|(Source10)] = = = = = = =Tools Used for Cooking and Eating = =High Class= In the Elizabethan time period high class people used a tool which is similar to present day which are pots, pans, kettles, skillets, cauldrons, knives, ladles, meat forks, and scissors. [|(Source 1)] High class people used flatwares to eat. High class people sat in chairs instead of benches. [|(Source 5)] Also in Elizabethan time period there were six main ways of cooking, those are frying, salting, smoking, boiling, baking, and spit roasting. High class used all of these ways but mostly they used the roasting, smoking and baking technique. [|(Source 1)] = = =Low Class = Low class people were the people who had the low quality food. Few people of the low class ate food with wooden flatwares and most people used fingers or their own tools for eating. [|(Source 9)] Low class people set on a bench together to eat food. Chair was only for the people special and honorable person. [|(Source 5)]

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