Food and Recipes of our Ancestors

Old Elizabethan Recipes
I quote: Food during Elizabethan Times (1558–1603) was changing. New Foods such as the tomato, potato and the turkey were being introduced from the New World. Chilli peppers of the capsicum family including red peppers, cayenne, paprika and chilli were also imported from the New World. Upper Class Elizabethans were adventurous with their recipes and cooking. The early Crusaders (1096-1128) had brought to England elements of Eastern cookery requiring spices such as pepper, cinnamon, mace, ginger, cloves, raisins, saffron and sugar and these were introduced into Old Medieval recipes and passed down to Elizabethan Recipes. Spices were extremely expensive and therefore used in cooking recipes by the Upper Classes. The use of Spices in Elizabethan cooking recipes therefore became a matter of both social fashion and social prestige. Spices used in Recipes from the Elizabethan Era were a sign of wealth and high social status.

Included on this site, apart from lots more information of plants, fruit and vegetables used are some interesting looking recipes but rather on a large scale. [to say the least!]