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The Tudor explorers
QCA Unit 19
Activities for home -
Feeding the crew
Tudor sailors spent many days out of sight
of land. They had to take food with them that would last. They
preserved food by drying, salting, smoking and pickling. They took
food which kept naturally, like nuts.
Try this...
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Look in the kitchen cupboards, or at the
supermarket.
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How many foods can you see that the
Elizabethan sailors could have taken on their voyage?
Remember – no frozen, canned or vacuum-sealed food.
Now try this...
Making ship’s
biscuits
Tudor sailors took these on long journeys.
They lasted better than bread.
You will need...
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250g of wholemeal flour
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A teaspoon of salt
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50ml of water
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Put the flour and salt in a bowl and add
the water bit by bit, stirring it in carefully. Don’t put too
much in at once. Keep adding water until the flour turns into a
sticky lump of dough.
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Sprinkle some flour on a board and roll
out the dough to a thickness of about 1cm. Cut out the
biscuits.
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Prick the biscuits with a fork to let out
any air bubbles. Put them on a greased baking tray.
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Ask a grown-up to put them in the oven for
you. Bake them in a very cool oven (Gas Mark 1, 275°F or
140°C) for about two hours, or until they are hard and
dry.
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