• banneryear1868@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    They loved showing off what spices they had, like “yo this is a nutmeg pie, that’s right I got nutmeg removed.” Some of the recipes are actually hilarious cause they seem to be based around showing off your spices, the original lasagna for example.

    What’s also funny is the foods peasants could afford and eat, were at least to our modern diet a lot healthier than what the lord would eat. They’d be eating root vegetables, cabbage, squash, porridges. Cheese as well because it was a method of preservation and the separated whey had it’s own uses, lot of peasants made their own cheese. Meanwhile the lord would be eating marrow and fatty salted meats, hunting his own game, or more like wanting people to believe he did so trying to curate that image of himself. Maybe commission a “morning hunt” portrait of himself in case you weren’t sure.