Victorian christmas dinner

Get inspired to bring a bit of the Charles Dickens holiday spirit to life at your dinner table this season. We’ve put together a festive menu that’s faithful to his ‘A Christmas C…

Victorian Era Cooking Facts about Upperclass Dinner Courses,Dinners,Foods

Prepare to be captivated by the fiery spectacle of this traditional flaming plum pudding topped with a brandy butter sauce. Full of candied fruit, brandy, rich flavours and aromatic spices, this festive fruit cake is the embodiment of Christmas. Perfect to serve after Christmas dinner or for a Victorian Christmas inspired feast.

From the era before electricity, automobiles and radio come old-fashioned recipes for Christmas side dishes. Get a taste of the holidays, Victorian style!

Each year, a talented team of designers transforms Victoria Mansion into a winter wonderland, highlighting the original 19th century interiors.

Goose, seasonal in England due to migratory patterns, was readily hunted, and while this may seem pretentious to us, it was both easily available and seasonal. Now, you may certainly make this recipe with turkey if that's what's available to you, but I'm including it here with the traditional goose merely because it would make Mrs. Beeton happy (and because I'm hoping those of you who hunt will be able to put the recipe to good use).

Victorian Dinner Party menu

Kathleen of Cuisine Kathleen is having a A PINTERESTING CHRISTMAS TABLE challenge. I have a hard time finding a picture of what I wanted to do but finally settled on the table below. This is my version. Below is the picture from Pinterest that I copied from the account of The Adventures of Tartanscot and you can see it on his blog here. I actually also have those Old Britain Castles Christmas tree plates but they are in our Cape Coral, FL home so I opted to use my Friendly Village…