viking foods

Today as my blog I am going to write about viking foods.

What did they eat?

The vikings ate pretty much anything they could get their hands on but their main specielty was farming. Vikings were very good farmers they would make flour out of dried corn which they would then make into bread to eat with the cheese they made out of their cows milk. Vikings would usually send their kids out to find nuts and berries in the woods and if they were lucky they would find some geese or chickens wandering around the farm to collect eggs from. While the girls were at home making flour, collecting nuts and berries and doing house chores the boys would go out and hunt for meat or go and do some fishing.

Did they have feasts and celebrations?

Vikings had many many feasts to celebrate. Some of the main reasons where for weddings, solstices, and festivals. Depending on how wealthy the host was a major feast would usually last 12 days! at feasts vikings would usually eat meat, bread, nuts, berries, fish, and cheese and drink mead, beer, weak ale and if they were at a major feast strong fruit wines.

How did they cook their food?

Their were three ways the vikings used to cook their food:

1. boiling, method 1: Vikings usually boiled their meat which they would do by digging a pit and lining it with wood which they would then put water and meat in and drop in hot stones to boil the water and add any herbs or spices they had to flavour the meat.

2. boiling, method 2: the other way vikings would boil their meat (and veggies) is by digging a hole making a fire in it and dangling a metal pot over it with water and either meat or veggies and a bit of seasoning.

3. over the fire: to cook fish or meat the vikings would make a fire and roast meat or fish over it on a spit.