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Breakfast was typically a light, quick meal in the middle ages, often cold, and often no more complex than some bread and something to drink. People would start their day early to take advantage of daylight and get quickly to their day's tasks.
The main meal for most medieval people was served mid day, usually between 10 and noon. The size and complexity of this meal was largely determined by social class, but it was typically a hot meal. The poor would eat a thick soup or stew of grains, vegetables, and legumes, using whatever was at hand and in season (or stored in the cellar). The rich would have more complex meals, of several courses, and ate much more meat and fish than the poor. Bread and ale were universal foods for all social class.
An evening meal was usually also a hot dish, but would be of a lesser volume and complexity than the mid day meal.
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What would a medieval king have for breakfast?
The middle ages lasted a thousand years and happened across a continent. There were a lot of kings; each was an individual, and each could do pretty much what he wanted. It was kind of like the joke, "Where does the elephant sit? Anywhere he wants." That said, however, it seems kings might usually have had no breakfast, or, if you prefer, a noon time dinner for breakfast. Working people needed to have calories in them to work, so they ate breakfast. People who did not labor avoided breakfast because not having it was a sign of status. The Church was against gluttony, so it advocated not eating unnecessary meal. There is a link below to the section on meals in a Wikipedia article on medieval cuisine.
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The name of the castle as "medieval" places it in the time it was built. The Middle Ages is a time in history that covers a 1000 years of time and when a historian states that something is medieval or in the middle ages it places it on the timeline.
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What would a medieval king have for breakfast?
The middle ages lasted a thousand years and happened across a continent. There were a lot of kings; each was an individual, and each could do pretty much what he wanted. It was kind of like the joke, "Where does the elephant sit? Anywhere he wants." That said, however, it seems kings might usually have had no breakfast, or, if you prefer, a noon time dinner for breakfast. Working people needed to have calories in them to work, so they ate breakfast. People who did not labor avoided breakfast because not having it was a sign of status. The Church was against gluttony, so it advocated not eating unnecessary meal. There is a link below to the section on meals in a Wikipedia article on medieval cuisine.
Why did the medieval English drink beer with breakfast?
They drank beer as this was far safer than drinking water which at that time was dirty and untreated (it was full of harmful bacteria)
What time did they eat at in Medieval times?
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