Events

Medieval Food activities

30th - 31st May 2009
Medieval Food - Cooking for the Rich and the Poor

Pottage, spiced hippocras, or medieval gingerbread – some of the wonderful foods being prepared by ‘Discovering Medieval' at this ‘hands on’ event. Come and have a go at making butter in the churn or grinding flour on the quern. Meet the Miller and grind a small bag of flour to take home.

Meet the physician and hear his gruesome tales on the causes of disease and how diagnosis could be made from a patient’s urine. Children can have a go at making cures for the plague from kitchen herbs and view the many replica tools that will be on display including the surgeon’s bloodletting bowl and his medicinal leeches.

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