Have you ever wondered what the Tudors ate? What was served at the courtly feasts of Henry VIII, or what kept peasants alive through the harsh winters of the sixteenth century?

The Tudor Cookbook provides over 250 recipes from authentic period manuals for starters, mains, desserts and drinks, from chicken blancmange to white pease pottage with seal and porpoise. It even covers vegetarian dishes – the Tudors designed dishes of vegetables to look like meat to be cooked during religious festivals when abstinence from meat was required. A few of the more outlandish ingredients and methods of cooking are now illegal, but the rest of the recipes have been trialled; many are delicious and surprising.

• Follows the

  success of Amberley's 'Great War Cook Book'

• Perfect

  gift book for fans of the Tudors

• All legal recipes can be followed by modern

  cooks (swans are now off limits!)

• Includes a

  short introdution and brief notes on the historical background to each recipe

• Subject of the book is relevant to many popular Tudor Visitor attractions including Hampton Court (Historic Royal Palaces) which has a recently restored Tudor kitchen and Kenilworth Castle & Elizabethan Garden (English Heritage)
• Author

  likely to be in huge demand to demonstrate historic recipes on TV and in the numerous

  cookery sections of the print media