Vivowiki

References:

• Viking Food
• Food in Viking Times

Looking back at the medieval world of the Viking Culture, we have to acknowledge the selection of food available. It differs a lot from the food provided today. We decided to concentrate on the following items:

Available: Rye, Barley, Oats, Buckwheat, Wheat, Grain. RH Flour consisted mainly of two sorts of grain, one of it being barley. RH Bread was small, thin and flat, sometimes with a hole in the middle, to hang it up on a row. It was rarely made in bread ovens, but more often on heated stone or heated iron plate. RH Heated Stone. Seeds used to produce oils: linseed oil, hemp seed oil and rapeseed oil.

We have to reorganize existing small fields and Square Fields, but also others.

The Vikings knew Grapes and produced Wine and Raisins.

Mostly honey, existing SF machines can be used: Extractor and Beehive, also Beeswax. We have to remodel the Beehive. How about Fruit Sugar?

Cow, sheep and goat produced milk, which was not so much used for consuming but rather for material for other products like cheese, skyr and curdled milk.

TBD:

• Curdled Milk in Kitchen Stove (new recipe)
• Buttermilk in Churn (new recipe)
• Skyr in Kitchen Stove (new recipe)

Chicken, duck, goose, Goat, sheep, cow, Pork, Horse Game, wild birds, whale, walrus, porpoise and seal. Meat from hunting was not used widely: Hunting of deer, elk, reindeer, hare, bear, wild boar, squirrel. Conservation of meat was reached via drying Drier and smoking in huts, but also fermentation of dead body in a pit away from air.

Known and used were: Wild Carrots, Dandelion, Cabbage, Onions, Mushrooms and peas. Conservation was done by Drying. There should me much more vegetables: Beans, peas, Nettle (Brennessel), Parsnip (Pastinake), turnip (Rübe), Leek (Lauch), Sorrell (Sauerampfer).

Dill, coriander, hops¿, fennel, watercress, horseradish, lovage, mountain fennel, parsley, mint, thyme, marjoram, angelica officinalis, juniper berries. Via trading posts also access to other food ….

Blackberries, blueberries, raspberries, wild strawberries, cherries Apples, elderberries, Hazelnuts, walnuts and by import almonds, chestnuts figs and grapes.