18, 19 century, what are the three meals a day for British aristocrats?

Britain reprinted and published a medieval cookbook on June 27th, from which it can be seen that British aristocrats did take a lot of food orally. No matter what flies in the sky, runs on the ground or swims in the water, they are caught and cooked into dishes-"chop sparrows, roast swans, roast antelopes, stew dog meat, cook sea eels, cook dolphins ...". Some modern gourmets made their mouths water, so they made a sea eel stewed with clove, cinnamon and saffron. The result was a bit strange.

Since18th century, this cookbook has been "lying" in the castle of Longritt, Marquis of Bath in obscurity, only for scholars to study privately. The seven libraries in Longritt Castle have 40,000 books, which is one of the important private collections in Europe. Due to its age, this castle is invisibly covered with a mysterious color by outsiders. It is said that a mysterious man in black often haunts one of the libraries.

Although this cookbook is only 80 pages long, it is clearly divided into three parts, describing in detail the dining situation of medieval English nobles. The first part is the menu of previous grand banquets, including 14 13 Henry V's dishes at the coronation dinner; The second part is the calendar of seasonal dishes, that is, what dishes to eat in what season; The third part lists the specific cooking ingredients.

Different from modern cookbooks, this medieval English cookbook did not indicate the amount of raw materials and the length of cooking time for each dish, perhaps because the chefs who cooked for the nobles were experienced and could do it themselves. There are a few lines of Latin scrawled in the margin of this book, which seems to have been learned by a chef. Interestingly, the book is also accompanied by comments from nobles on their favorite dishes. For example, Henry I said that he was crazy about eels and always had to feed himself to death.

It is puzzling that vegetables are not mentioned in the menu. Are all nobles "carnivores"? They like fish and birds, such as barracuda, eel, carp, puffer fish, sparrow, goose, seagull, lark and peacock. Many times, serving food is a super spectacular sight, and many animals are served whole. The huge dining table is also richly decorated, and the rock sugar on the table is carved into colorful and sometimes gilded.

Don't think how elegant the nobles eat. Although they have all kinds of knives and forks neatly at hand, they often use the most primitive action-grasping with their hands. According to the recipe, ordinary aristocrats waste little, and they must have a good appetite to eat such amazing amounts of delicious food.