Victorian Meals?!
Breakfast
Lunch
Dinner/Pudding
Snacks (if any)
Thanks
Answers: Could someone please tell me what a person living in the Victorian era would have eaten for
Breakfast
Lunch
Dinner/Pudding
Snacks (if any)
Thanks
In the mid-1870s, the woman of an upper-class household planned lunch and evening meals, but she had a cook to actually do the work for her. Because upper-class families were not doing hard physical labor during the day, their largest meal was served in the evening. When they entertained, they served twelve or thirteen course meals. When they dined alone, they ate five or six courses. An example:
Savory Soup
Roast Turkey with Dressing or Roast Pork with Specialty Potatoes or Chicken Fricassee served with Rice
Two Vegetable Side Dishes
Citrus Ice
Fresh Dinner Rolls with Sweet Cream Butter
Jams, Jellies & Sweet Pickles
Fancy Cake & Preserved Fruit
Coffee, Hot Punch & Water
Usually, one would eat dinner in late afternoon and then supper at early evening, or dinner at early evening and then supper later at night. You could say Supper is the Victorian mid-night snack ;)
Some other food that was used in the Victorian (judging by when these words were first used in the English language,) are: crêpes, consommé, spaghetto, soufflé, bechamel, ice cream, chowder, meringue, bouillabaisse, mayonnaise, grapefruit, eclair, and chips.
lowerclass families ate simple meals, for example potatoes and / or soup, and often ate in their kitchens. In Europe it was common to have a warm meal for lunch and bread for dinner, I’m not sure if this was the case for American families as well. If you want to cite a source, have a look at D.H. Lawrence’s story ‘the Odour of Chrysanthemums’ (it should be available to read for free online), in this story a workingclass family waits for the husband to come home for dinner so it can give you some information on how things worked.
http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/b/b...
mrs beetons book of victorian recipes