However, during the Victorian era the food for a picnic was usually prepared at home and taken to the place selected for a common meeting of friends and neighbors. Jan 10, 2018 - Explore dianeried's board "VICTORIAN RECIPES" on Pinterest. Other parts of our website related to food: "The Good and Necessary Salad"—a salad recipe from 1894 Milk and Soda—the Victorian "energy drink" Our Icebox Sarah's Sourdough Bread Recipe Soda articles: The American Drink (1897) Evils of Encouraging the Ice Cream Soda Trade (1897) How to Draw A Glass of Ice Cream Soda (1893) The rules are pretty simple, all you need to do is eat Victorian recipes all day long, and by the time the credits roll, you’ll be as one with the 1800s. Marinate fruits and raisins in brandy or juice overnight. For those with money, the home became a haven (place of safety) in a fast-changing world. However, life was uncertain. A 19th century newspaper jokingly laid down rules for those considering such an excursion -- how to have a Victorian picnic: Never take food … The cards, carols, crackers, Santa Claus, and of course, the food, is an inheritance from these creative, celebratory people. Certainly Victorians were far less concerned about counting calories (though the technology for doing so did exist) or about "health foods." Raspberries may be fresh or frozen. Prepare pudding. Reserve as many raspberries & almonds as you desire for top garnish. Naturally, as the era was defined by an English Queen, the food should be English too, so here are five recipes to get … Victorians. Christmas as we know it today comes directly from Victorian England. Frozen are absorbed into the cake better. Victorian cookery doesn't always have the best reputation today. I use an electric knife for ease of cutting and to not squish the cake. See more ideas about Victorian recipes, Food recipes and Colonial recipe. Use both if you like. Some found wealth, others only poverty. In the Victorian era, people flocked to the cities to find work or take up new business opportunities. Sift together flour, soda, salt and spices; stir in. Although they ate far more calories than we do, because they were so active, obese Victorians were relatively rare. The comforts of a warm house and good food had never been more important. To open my eyes to the joys of Christmas dinner past, Gray is giving me a crash course in the 19th-century recipes from the manuscript book of the … Fresh make a better garnish. Cream sugar, butter and egg. Cut or tear angel food cake into bite sized pieces. Let’s take a look at what dinner at the Victorians’ Christmas table would have tasted like. The low-carb Victorian diet.