Your daily dose of food for thought! Where did it originate?
The diet of the Vikings The Vikings had a varied diet. The first meal of the day, call dagveror was a slurry consisting of a mixture of barley and rye grains. With it, the rich might have rye or wheat bread, which is considered than barley, because it raised better. However, barley was cheaper and just the bread was still the chief food of the poor. Food secunda, nattveror, food at the end of the day, it was often the fish such as cod or herring, which was eaten either fresh or preserved by salting or drying wind. Seaweed, vegetables and fruit together this. Most vegetables and fruits were home-grown, and products such as cabbage, beans, onions, parsnips, peas, turnips and apples, blackberries, cherries and pears are in their gardens. The poor, and occasionally in soups or stews, rarely ate meat, even eggs, cheese and fat for all food preparation days were obtained from livestock. Sometimes the nests of puffins and gulls were raided SEE DB
The day begins Imagine a scene in North Yorkshire ago thousand years. The autumn sun creeps lazily on the horizon, flooding a small valley on the coast with morning light. Is a small hamlet Svensholm Viking comprising a large room and a few outbuildings. The communal house has thick walls keep it cool in summer and let it freeze in winter. The dream of the family in the lounge main around the fire together with some farm stock. At the top of an adjoining building a rooster crows from the farm to awaken life. Without thinking about everyday tasks ahead the immediate attention is the breakfast! No breakfast cereals, muffins and scrambled eggs from these farmers, however. "The same dish … looks pretty scary …" While Ingrid, the farmer's wife, leads to the embers of the fire yesterday back to life, the farmer Sven helps himself to some of the remains of yesterday's stew. It has been left in an iron pot, and not something that you think of Halloween witches to sit. The same dish is also pretty scary, a thin layer of fat is formed in a liquid brown, consisting of boiled lamb bones, beans, peas, carrots and turnips. Sven shows a piece of bread to dip into the stew. A more stale crust flat bread, this bread was baked last week. The children of the family to spend the day helping their parents. Fortified with a breakfast of bread and butter (similar to skimmed milk) Tostig help his father in the fields. The rest of the harvest must be gathered in a lamb should be sacrificed. Sven uses an iron sickle to cut the corn, while Tostig uses a wooden rake to pick up the cut grain in pods. Later, they are threshed to release the grains of wheat, rye and barley. Next
But I still have the stomach?
