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What we would think of as a beef animal had the double purpose of being a working or draught animal that could pull heavy loads. There is an old adage, A year to grow, two years to plough and a year to fatten. The beef medieval people would have eaten would have been a maturer, denser meat than we are used to today. I have always longed to try it. The muscle acquired from a working ox would have broken down over the fattening year and provided wonderful fat covering and marbling. Given the amount of brewing that took place, the odds are that the animals would have been fed a little drained mash from time to time. Kobe beef, that excessively expensive Japanese beef, was originally obtained from ex-plough animals whose muscles were broken down by mash from sake production and by massage. I'd like to think our beef might have had a not dissimilar flavour.

~ Clarissa Dickson Wright

Clarissa Dickson Wright Beef English Food Food Kobe Beef Medieval Cattle

Wolsey and Henry VIII, it has to be said, were not exceptional in their love of the table. The English of Tudor times had a reputation throughout Europe for gluttony. Indeed, overeating was regarded as the English vice in the same way that lust was the French one and drunkenness that of the Germans (although looking at the amount of alcohol consumed in England, I expect the English probably ran a close second to the Germans).

~ Clarissa Dickson Wright

Clarissa Dickson Wright English Food Food Overeating

By the middle of Henry VIII's reign, the white meats — that is, dairy products — were considered common fare and people from all classes would eat meat whenever they could get it.

~ Clarissa Dickson Wright

Clarissa Dickson Wright Dairy English Food Food Tudor England

Incidentally, although the Cistercians did much to improve the quality of sheep, the animal remained much smaller than its modern descendants; as late as the early eighteenth century a sheep wasn't much bulkier than a Labrador Dog.

~ Clarissa Dickson Wright

Clarissa Dickson Wright Cistercians English Food Food Sheep
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