Food

The Anglo-Saxons loved food and drinking. The food was cooked over the fire in the house.

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They ate meat and bread and drank ale.

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They grew:

  • Wheat
  • rye
  • barley
  • oats
  • carrots
  • parsnip
  • cabbages
  • peas
  • beans
  • onions
  • apples
  • cherries
  • plums

They didn’t eat some foods we eat today, such as potatoes, tomatoes, bananas and pineapples.