Food

The farmers did not eat meat very often, and for the poorest, meat was a luxury.

The farmers did eat meat from their own farms. It was meat from pigs.

They seldom ate fresh meat. They salted, smoked and dried the meat before they ate it, to make it last longer. They did not eat horse meat.

Porridge was the everyday food, it was also important at the festival. The ingredients were flour, water and salt.
But it was also common with gruel, but both gruel and porridge was cooked on a daily basis with water, flour and salt. Only during the weekends they used milk in the gruel.

They ate mostly food that came from their own farm. Bread was the most important food among peasant families and it was baked mostly in oats. Wheat bread was a luxury that was eaten only on special occasions.

Fish was a fairly common part of the diet. The fish was usually eaten fresh but could also be dried, smoked or salted.