What are some things that would have been bought in the Elizabethan Era?
That’s an interesting question, because in Elizabethan times most people still lived in the country rather than in towns, and a lot of things that nowadays we would expect to buy ready-made would actually be made at home. People would produce most of their own food for instance, and women would usually bake their own bread, make their own butter and cheese, brew their own ale (which was drunk instead of water), and make their own home remedies, medicines and so on (few people lived within easy reach of a doctor or apothecary). Most women also spent a good deal of their time spinning wool and flax into thread, rather than buying it ready-made. Things like candles and even soap would be made by women at home. The main place where people would go to buy things in elizabethan times was at the weekly market in the local town, where people from the surrounding countryside could come to bring their own products to sell (farmers would sell vegetables, , livestock etc, their wives would normall
