Common Victorian foods?!
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It's a shame you are not close enough that I could lend you my copy of 'The Victorian Cookbook" by Michelle Berriedale-Johnson. it has not only recipes but chapters on servants, food adulteration, Family Tea, Banquets and others..
From a chapter entitled Miss Eliza Acton's "Modern Dinner for a Private family" we have the following recipe:
Gravy Soup
Baked Soles
Bordyke Veal Cake
Roast Fowl - A french Recipe
Potato Ribbons
Carrots in their own juice
An Excellent Salad of Young Vegetables
Compote of Spring Fruit
Young Wife's Pudding
Vermicelli Pudding
From the chapter entitled "Christmas Dinner in the Servant's Hall" we have recipes for:
Oxtail Soup
potted Ham
Spiced Beef
"A Boiled Turkey"
Christmas Plum Pudding
Mince Pies
Plum Cake
i hope this helps.
Doc Hudson
Breads, plum pudding, cinnamon bread, boil pork, butter, roasted chicken, stewed beef with potatoes, home made wine, carrots w potatoes, tea, cake.
Some books I've read
bread and dripping, animal fat was popular
