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Social Life of Elizabethan Age Food: These qualities of bread were commonly baked at ngatestone Hallin the 1550s. The gentle folk commonly eat wheat bread Their poorer neighbors often use only rye or barley Very hard iimes beans peas and (shudder) oats may be used Wine: Manchet: A very fine white bread made from wheat four Cheat:A wheaten bread with the coarsest part of the bran removed Ravelled bread: Aind of cheat bot with more bran leftin Pery :A(very) sighuly alcoholic pearcider Verjuice :Avery sharp vinegar made from grapes used forcooking orasacondimnent Wines ;include malmsey canary rhenish claret sack and shenry Sack :Sherry some times called "Jerez wine” Aqua vine : Any stong spiritsuch as brandy Brandywine : Adistilled wine Most wines are sweet and mather heavy They probably have to be stmined before you want to dink them and may still have solid matter floating in them Sugar and spices (rcinnamon and ginger nutmeg and clove" are often added to wine and even to beer Rhenishisa German wine and very strong Claret comes from Gascony (southem Franeeh Canaryisa white wine from the Canary fslands Sack comes from Spain Sack is popularly sweetened with sugar Beerin England is usually ale, made without hops and is relatively Tat It can be favored with justabout anything, including pepper ivy rosemary and lupins Ciethes Merchantclass women do notalways weara bumroll and seldom wear a farthingale All kinds of pants fslops or venetians etcJ) are called hose, specifically trunk hose, because they coverthe mnk of he body Wedding: age : With parental permission boys are legalto marry at 14, gidks at 12, though itis not recommended so early One comes of age al 21 Noble familics may amrange marriage much earlier Robert Dudleys sister Katherine, who became the countess of Huntingdon did go to the altaratage 7, but that was extraordinary mame : The bride takes her husbands family name on marriage, B