People from the cold north feasted during Yule and then waited under the midsummer solstice for another feast. Vikings had tables packed with food that also included wooden cutlery, plates, jugs and cloths. Meat was always fresh, and the animals were just hunted, then cooked for the meat. Vikings kept cattle for milk and they could live for years, but some animals provided meat. Milk didn't keep so without proper facilities, the milk was turned into butter. Depending on how much milk there was available, if there was a lot of it, they also made it into cheese. The Vikings had ducks, chickens and geese for their eggs and sometimes meat, but Vikings enjoyed eating wild eggs too. A lot of the meats and root vegetables were made into stews.
They had a lot of roasts. They ate pork, lamb, goat, fish. As very efficient and clever hunters, the Vikings caught a variety of animals. Boar, deer, reindeer, so their food was often rich in meat. On of the most interesting foods the Vikings ate was bone broth. They would get animal bones, then roasted them and this was transferred to a pot of boiling water. The cook would be done slowly until the marrow escaped. Today eating a meal with roasted bone marrow is so Viking!
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