societyintheelizabethan

Updated: February 24, 2026

Hubert Hall's SocietyintheElizabethan Age, and Thorold Rogers's HistoryofAgricultureandPrices, vols. v. and vi. There is now a small allowance of oatmeal, pepper, mustard, and vinegar, against which we may set the 'purser's necessaries' of Elizabeth's day. In that day but little sugar was used, and tea and cocoa were unknown even in palaces.

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