What kinds of food did people eat during the Victorian Era?!
Answers: In Dicken's Christmas Carol, Scrooge eats a "small saucepan of gruel" for his supper in a dark room with a "low fire" illustrating how cheap and stingy he was. At the end of the story, he buys the biggest turkey for sale to send to the Cratchit's as a sign of his new found generosity. The Victorians loved oysters, steamed "puddings", and turkey for Christmas. They ate a lot more organ meats than we do now-tripe, tongue, kidneys. A lot of foods we consider common were considered rich man's food because servants were needed to prepare very labor intensive dishes. Stuff like mashed potatoes and gelatin dishes (aspic) were for rich people or for special occasions. Most fruits and vegetables were eaten in season, or "put by"-canned for dried for winter use or stored in a root cellar.
Tea and cookies.
That would depend on where during the era....each place has its own food.
I guess they all ate gruel.
It really depends on the location.
Scrooge would have eaten alot of roasted meats, beef, chicken, duck, turkey, rabbit, etc. Sausages and pudding, made from animal blood and organ meats, were also eaten. Fish and seafood were also available to the upperclass. He might have eaten stews with slow cooked meats, potatoes, etc---however mostly vegetables were considered a lower class food. White bread and white flour was held in high esteem and was definiately a food of the upper class. Uncooked fruit was often considered not wholesome to the upper class so mostly apples, pears and such were cooked into pies and tarts.
chickens, rabbits, beef, sheep, goat, pig, horse- ?, venison, fish all, beans, turnips, carrots, yams, breads etc, milk, eggs, tea ,wine, liquor,
nothing much special Just common food..
Lots of meats, if wealthy. Else, vegetables and breads if not. Alot of the wealthier people ate French-influenced foods, as you can see if you ever saw a banquet menu from the period which are usually all in French. Lots of meats with sauces and jellies, potted meats, pate, etc. Several food courses, and of course wines and spirits too. Gout became prevelant among the people who ate alot of meats, aged foods and cheeses, wines, etc. The working class diet was not very healthy, and got worse the more England industrialized and things like tinned milk and biscuits became widely available.