A medieval peasant would be eating gruel, not fancy white bread (that's for royalty basically) or the egg creating machine, because that's what makes the eggs which you will also not eat because the royalty nicks them all as "taxes".
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Bro where is the greens?
I'd halve the chicken, skip the bread, and add a bunch of vegetables, and some cheese, but yeah. In fact, that is pretty much what I eat as my main meal at lunchtime every day.
Skyrim ass meal. need a wheel of cheese with it.
Try a ploughmans meal - bread, cheese and pickle. Awesome as a lunch.
Is that a pickle or some pickle?
A lazy supermarket special - a roast chicken in a bag and a baguette roll picked up on the way to the checkout. We've all been there and I'm sure it makes a passable meal, but cooking is a skill everyone should endeavour to be proficient in.
Add some veg, and some butter for the bread, and it's a good meal
A good meal for two, but a good meal nonetheless
Two? That's a whole ass chicken and a large loaf of bread. It's easily a meal for four if you add a few veggies into the mix.
could use some vegetables. 8/10 because lack of said vegetables.
Even in the 1960s eating a whole chicken would have been a luxury, this isn't peasant food, that's the gout inducing diet of a king
"What is the charge? Eating a meal? A succulent chicken meal?", "Get your hand off my baguette!"
I had to scroll way too far for this.
Soft white bread? Nobody but rich upper class people could afford soft white bread until well past the industrial revolution.
That's also a pretty large roasted bird that's being eaten in complete absence of stew.
fun fact: whole-grain bread is probably healthier than soft white bread anyways due to an increased content in fiber, so there's that ...
I thought this was common knowledge?
it might be, but it still fits into the context. especially considering how peasants unintentionally might have been healthier simply due to their poverty, which might seem paradoxical.
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If by "peasant" you mean "knight of the fucking round table" then yes
A few things to unpack here.
- That chicken is roasted nicely, but I completely understand if that was bought in that condition at the grocer's.
- Plain bread is a travesty. it needs to be either toasted and/or you need some melted butter or gravy to sop up.
- Pair this with some fruit or pan seared/roasted vegetables. Even microwaved beans would make this nutritious. Takes very little effort, very easy to do.
- Even peasants had access to beer, ale, or home-made short-beer/kvass. Gotta calorie-max so you can work in the field tomorrow. Plus, the alcohol helps with the constant muscle-aches and fatigue from endless labor.
There are innumerable ways to elevate this meal, but I'll keep this comment short. Anyone, feel free to message me or reply here if you want tips for that.
Plain bread is a travesty
This isn't plain bread, good sir, this is a baguette! Well, rather small one, but still.
Plain bread is perfectly fine as long as it's not one of those super dry breads
super dry breads
Technically that's not bread. That's... Hm... Wheat buttscratcher? Anywho, a proper bread with no industrial processing is moist. :)
The 0.62€ industrial baguette I buy at Despar Is fine and not dry despite being industrial
How long does it keep the moistness? Is it still moist the next day? What about day after that?
The day after it's fine. The next day it's meh. Provided you keep it in a paper bag and not out in the air
Then it's slightly better industrial bread (was it baguette?), but yeah. Leavens or emulsifiers or weird making process lead to it. Like they also used one of the water retaining emusifiers instead of proper starch content - those tend to keep moistness for up to 48h since baking and then it evaporates instantly.
Non industrial bread keeps water longer, but more importantly loses it more gradually and from the outside in (so that at least the "core" is still moist).
(I'm not arguing pro/against breads here, or trying to, idk, shame you for buying baguettes lol, honestly just trying spread the knowledge)
Anywho, a proper bread with no industrial processing is moist. :)
how so?
Crumb must be crumby, but "flesh" of the bread should be moist (do not confuse it with soft). Properly made bread shouldn't be wet or chewy.
When making bread you add water to the dough. Starch will keep the water and when baking, the flesh should retain it spread evenly. Industrial bread often dehydrates/dries it, as that's how it works with their emulsifiers or leavens - don't ask me why though, it's just my observation.
And you can be sure that dry bread is either old stale bread or fresh industrial bread.
a friend of mine brought me some self-made bread yesterday, and it was indeed moist, and i instantly loved it. i wish there's more bread like that one. idk why industrial bread tastes differently.
might be that they intentionally dessicate it for hygienic reasons? i.e. i imagine a higher water content might make it spoil faster.
You're eating like Final Fight.
(Hits a trashcan)
Roasted chicken.
(Hits some tires)
Bread.
100% health let's go!!!
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A vegetable wouldn't hurt you.
It would if it fell on your head. Checkmate atheists.
It would also kill you if it was fired out of a cannon without breaking apart somehow
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Peasants? That wpuld be a medieval noble
A medieval peasant on a celebration day. I doubt they could eat a whole as chicken every day
Depends on which era honestly. The medieval period lasted for nearly a thousand years and could vary about as much as one would expect, so for example a very well off peasant during the high medieval period maybe could have eaten a whole ass chicken for a while at least. Probably wouldn't have though, at least not without turning it into soup or a sandwich equivalent.
stew 🤤️
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Would a medieval peasant have access to that much meat?
Depends on time and place, of course. Peasants in the late medieval period in England ate more meat than we do today (about 40% of their calories).
King Richard I was once captured for ransom while traveling undercover trough Austria.
His cover was blown specifically because he tried ordering a roast chicken.
There are a few variations of the details in this story though, a peasant could definitely have owned a chicken and eaten it when it died but it was probably way more valuable to sell it.
They probably ate the roosters though? Or maybe sold them for food ofc.
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