Most people are familiar with the idea of eating breakfast, lunch and dinner. In Tudor England, those of means and social status likewise ate three times a day, but this had not always been the case.

Tastes of History ran a workshop for the volunteers at Plas Mawr, an Elizabethan townhouse in Conwy, North Wales to teach something of food and dining in the Tudor period.  From the questions we fielded, it became evident that a précis of the etiquette expected at a wealthy Tudor table might be of interest.

In every issue of BBC History Magazine, picture editor Sam Nott presents a recipe from the past. In this article, from December 2015, Sam recreates a delicate chewit - a meat and fruit pie enjoyed in the 16th-century.