What did europeans eat in the middle age?

Answer 1

pottage. And this was everybody from the serfs to the king. Pottage is a thick soup/stew made of grain and vegetables. there is seldom meat in it unless you were rich. The availability of meat or fish was very scarce. If you lived near a lake, stream, ocean or pond you might get fish but it was rare. Meat would be rabbit, chicken, pork, grouse, deer. For the poor it would be rabbit. Religious feast days like Christmas and

Easter there might be some meat or fish. As sugar had not been brought into Europe

and spices were very very rare and costly flavourings were seldom used. Honey was

used to sweeten things again if you were wealthy. They also drank water or more likely 'small beer'.This was a type of fermented beer that had a very low alcohol content. Everyone would drink this because water was tainted and there was enough alcohol in the beer to kill germs. Wine was costly and rare and for the rich. In the summer the poor could go out and pick berries etc. but in the winter it was very hard to come by food. They made bread but it had no yeast so it would be a flat bread. Because they did not have very hard grindstones they usually ground the wheat by hand and as a result the flour would have hard bits of wheat plus pieces of the grindstone in it which tended to wear down peoples' teeth to stubs.