Food & Feasting in Medieval England

Our cook tempts your visitors senses by cooking up some favourite medieval dishes and enlightens them with fabulous facts about food in medieval England.  Visitors young and old can have a go at making butter as their ancestors would have done in our plunge churns.  This display is run for passing trade throughout the day.

We set up a mouthwatering display with lots of medieval food and drink. We can cook medieval food over the fire and the smells will be irresistable! Whether it's the ubiquitous pottage, a glass of spiced hippocras or medieval gingerbread we're making, the public are endlessly fascinated. 

This display works particularly well combined with our milling display as visitors can make their own flour, their own butter, make the dough and see it being baked off on the fire and follow the process through from beginning to end, which is a great learning experience for kids and adults alike.

The fire is in a firebox on legs 18 inches off the ground and a bucket of water, fire blanket and extinguishers are kept to hand as a precautionary measure.

Little aprons are provided for little people (as shown) to help keep their clothes clean whilst making butter.

There will be a small additional charge for this display to cover the cost of cream (for the butter), food, charcoal etc, which will vary depending on how many days you are hiring us for.