Research

On Wednesday 11th March we each got told to search up parts of our piece so that we can add some more facts and information. I needed to research soaps as I have to try sell soap in the market scene and Ella mentioned me giving more information on soap before trying to sell my product. I searched it up and looked at several different websites and after reading a few websites I started too see some of the facts repeating...eventually I got all the facts I needed and that I could find and put them into bullet points in a list and got this:

- Castill soap was expensive, it's imported toilet soap made with olive oil than the animal fat

- Animal fats was used in soap for laundry (laundry soap)

- This is the sort of thing a wealthy lady would use for her daily wash

- Wealthy ladies used scented toilet soaps or castill soap for their daily wash (not all levels of society can use this soap as it was imported and expensive)

- bathing soaps was often made from imported olive oil and perfumes / a rougher version was then used for clothes

- for the more poor people, the soap was homemade from animals fats and herbs

- animals fats and ash was used as well / mainly soft soap made from ash lye and animal fat

So as you can see this list, most of the facts repeat.

I also was asked to create a menu for the banquet scene but we was never sure what the Tudors ate so I did some research on what food they ate and made a list of the information I collected:

- Richer people ate meat mainly, but only a few vegetables, they would eat spices and sugar which the poor couldn't do as they couldn't afford it. Rich and poor Tudors ate very different food from each other, vegetables which grew underground, (such as carrots and parsnips), were only considered for the poor.

- Pottage (vegetable stew)
- rye / whole meal bread
- white bread (richer Tudors)
- meats such as: Vension, beef, pork, veal, goat, lamb, rabbit, hare, mutton, swans, herons and sometimes puffins
- weak beer (cleaner than water)
- beer or wine for the richer Tudors from France

I think by finding this research it will incorporate well in our piece.