Peasant foods

Peasant foods are dishes eaten by peasants, made from accessible and inexpensive ingredients.

In many historical periods, peasant foods have been stigmatized.^[1]

They may use ingredients, such as offal and less-tender cuts of meat, which are not as marketable as a cash crop. One-dish meals are common.^{[citation needed]}

Common types

Meat-and-grain sausages or mushes

Ground meat or meat scraps mixed with grain in approximately equal proportions, then often formed into a loaf, sliced, and fried

Balkenbrij
Black pudding
Boudin
Goetta, a pork or pork-and-beef and pinhead oats sausage
Groaty pudding
Haggis, a savory dish containing sheep's pluck (heart, liver, and lungs), minced with onion, oatmeal, suet, spices, and salt, mixed with stock, and cooked while encased in a sheep's stomach
Knipp
Livermush
Lorne sausage
Meatloaf
Scrapple, pig scraps, cornmeal and other flours and spices fried together in a mush
Slatur

Pasta

Pasta con i peperoni cruschi, an Italian pasta dish from Basilicata, defined a true representative of "cucina povera" (peasant cooking)^[2]
Pasta mollicata, Italian pasta dish from South Italy, especially Basilicata, often known as a "poor man's dish".^[3]
Testaroli^[4]

Sauces

Agliata – a garlic sauce in Italian cuisine that has been a peasant food, and also used by upper-class people^[5]

Soups and stews

Acquacotta, an Italian soup that dates to ancient history. Primary ingredients are water, stale bread, onion, tomato and olive oil, along with various vegetables and leftover foods that may have been available.
Batchoy (Tagalog), a Filipino meat soup or noodle soup made with pork and pork offal in ginger-flavored broth, traditionally with pork blood added.
Cassoulet, a French bean, meat, and vegetable stew originating from the rural Southwest that has since become a staple of French cuisine
Cawl, a Welsh broth or soup
Cholent, a traditional Jewish Sabbath stew
Chupe, refers to a variety of stews from South America generally made with chicken, red meat, lamb or beef tripe and other offal
Duckefett, a German sauce
Dinuguan, a Filipino pork blood stew infused with vinegar.
Feijoada, originally a Portuguese stew consisting of beans and meat; also a Brazilian dish originally made by slaves from leftover ingredients from their master's house
Gazpacho,^[6] typically a tomato-based vegetable soup, traditionally served cold, originating in the southern Spanish region of Andalusia.
Minestrone, the meal in one pot of ancient Italy that is still a basic part of Italian cuisine
Mulligan stew, a stew often made by itinerant workers
Mujaddara, an Arabian dish of lentils, rice, grains, and onions
Pea soup or "pease pudding", a common thick soup, from when dried peas were a very common food in Europe, still widely eaten there and in French Canada
Pot-au-feu, the French stew of oxtail, marrow, and vegetables, sometimes sausage
Pottage, a staple stew made from boiling vegetables, grains and whatever was available, since Neolithic times in the British Isles
Ratatouille, a French stewed vegetable dish
Shchi, a traditional Russian soup made from cabbage, meat, mushrooms, flour and sour cream, usually eaten with rye bread
Scouse (food), a stew type dish from Liverpool, which gives its name to the residents of the city, who are known as scousers.
Zatiruha, an Eastern European soup

List of peasant foods

Pot-au-feu, the basic French stew, a dish popular with both the poor and the rich alike

Baked beans, the simple stewed bean dish
Barbacoa, a form of slow cooking, often of an animal head, a predecessor to barbecue
Bulgur wheat, with vegetables or meat^[7]
Broken rice, which is often cheaper than whole grains and cooks more quickly.
Bubble and squeak, a simple British dish, cooked and fried with potatoes and cabbage mixed together.
Finger millet balls made from ragi flour which is boiled with water and balls are formed and eaten with vegetable gravy.
Greens, such as dandelion and collard.^[7]
Head cheese, made from boiling down the cleaned-out head of an animal to make broth, still made
Hominy, a form of corn specially prepared to be more nutritious
Horsebread, a low-cost European bread that was a recourse of the poor
Katemeshi, a Japanese peasant food consisting of rice, barley, millet and chopped daikon radish^[8]
Lampredotto, Florentine dish or sandwich made from a cow's fourth stomach
Polenta, a porridge made with the corn left to Italian farmers so that land holders could sell all the wheat crops, still a popular food
Pumpernickel, a traditional dark rye bread of Germany, made with a long, slow (16–24 hours) steam-baking process, and a sour culture
Ratatouille, the stewed vegetable dish
Red beans and rice, the Louisiana Creole dish made with red beans, vegetables, spices, and leftover pork bones slowly cooked together, and served over rice, common on Mondays when working women were hand-washing clothes
Salami, a long-lasting sausage, used to supplement a meat-deficient diet
Soul food, developed by African-American slaves and servants, primarily using ingredients undesired and given away by their employers or slaveholders.
Succotash, a blend of corn and beans
Taco, foods placed on native tortillas in the Americas

Polenta with lentils and cotechino, a sausage made of pig skin, filled with rind, pork meat and spices, from Italy
A slice of pumpernickel bread

References

^ Albala, Ken (2002). Eating Right in the Renaissance. University of California Press. p. 190. ISBN 0520927281.
^ "Strascinati con mollica e peperoni cruschi". tasteatlas.com. Retrieved 19 September 2020.
^ "Pasta mollicata – bucatini with anchovies and breadcrumbs". greatitalianchefs.com. Retrieved 19 September 2020.
^ Viaggio in Toscana. Alla scoperta dei prodotti tipici. Ediz. inglese. Progetti educativi. Giunti Editore. 2001. p. 41. ISBN 978-88-09-02453-3.
^ Capatti, A.; Montanari, M.; O'Healy, A. (2003). Italian Cuisine: A Cultural History. Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspe (in Italian). Columbia University Press. p. 36. ISBN 978-0-231-50904-6.
^ Daly, Gavin (2013). The British Soldier in the Peninsular War: Encounters with Spain and Portugal, 1808-1814. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 100. ISBN 978-1137323835.
^ ^a ^b Ciezadlo, Annia (2012). Day of Honey: A Memoir of Food, Love, and War. Simon and Schuster. p. 217. ISBN 978-1416583943.
^ Cwiertka, K.J. (2006). Modern Japanese Cuisine: Food, Power and National Identity. University of Chicago Press. p. 229. ISBN 978-1-86189-298-0. Retrieved June 16, 2017.

External links

Dietary Requirements of a Medieval Peasant. People.eku.edu.
Polish Peasant Food for Beginners

[1] Albala, Ken (2002). Eating Right in the Renaissance. University of California Press. p. 190. ISBN 0520927281.

[2] "Strascinati con mollica e peperoni cruschi". tasteatlas.com. Retrieved 19 September 2020.

[3] "Pasta mollicata – bucatini with anchovies and breadcrumbs". greatitalianchefs.com. Retrieved 19 September 2020.

[4] Viaggio in Toscana. Alla scoperta dei prodotti tipici. Ediz. inglese. Progetti educativi. Giunti Editore. 2001. p. 41. ISBN 978-88-09-02453-3.

[5] Capatti, A.; Montanari, M.; O'Healy, A. (2003). Italian Cuisine: A Cultural History. Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspe (in Italian). Columbia University Press. p. 36. ISBN 978-0-231-50904-6.

[6] Daly, Gavin (2013). The British Soldier in the Peninsular War: Encounters with Spain and Portugal, 1808-1814. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 100. ISBN 978-1137323835.

[Ciezadlo-7] Ciezadlo, Annia (2012). Day of Honey: A Memoir of Food, Love, and War. Simon and Schuster. p. 217. ISBN 978-1416583943.

[8] Cwiertka, K.J. (2006). Modern Japanese Cuisine: Food, Power and National Identity. University of Chicago Press. p. 229. ISBN 978-1-86189-298-0. Retrieved June 16, 2017.

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