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1800s Typical Meat and Game Meals Served In Households Like the Bridgerton’s and Jane Austen’s. #Bridgerton #Food #RegencyEra #JaneAusten

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1800s Typical Meat and Game Meals served during the 1800s. These are the sort of dishes Jane Austen’s family and the Bridgertons would have eaten on a regular basis.

Pig’s Feet and Truffles, Lyons Sausage, Puree of Game and Rice, Pigeon Pie, Brawn, Calf’s Heart, Larks and Potatoes, Lamb Chops and Potatoes, Calf’s Tongue, Scotch Eggs and Forcemeat, Stuffed tomatoes, Hot and Cold Fowl and Jelly, Veal Cutlets and Olives, Veal Cutlets, Filet Of Beef In the Garden, Fillets Of Beef, Lamb Cutlets and Green Peas, Partridges, Garnished Ham, Garnished Tongue, Chicken Fricassée, Chicken Croquettes, Fricandeau Of Veal, Half Calf’s Head, Chartreuse Of Partridge, Timbale Milanese Or Macoroni.

From: 1860s Mrs. Beeton’s Book of Household Management. via Google Books (PD-150)

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1815 Black Wool Tailcoat As Worn By the Men in the Families of Jane Austen and the Bridgertons. Bridgerton #RegencyFashion #JaneAusten #BritishHistory

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1815 ca. Tailcoat, Probably British. Black wool, silk cotton and wood. Double-breasted, cutaway at the front waist, notched collar, straight sleeves, pleat falling from the back waist. via Metropolitan Museum, N.Y.C., U.S.A. As Worn By the Men in the Families of Jane Austen and the Bridgertons. #Regency #JaneAusten #Fashion #BritishHistory

Tailcoat: A Regency Era, or early 1800s, gentleman was outfitted in more practical fabrics, such as wool, cotton and buckskin rather than the fussy brocades and silks of the late 1700s. The men in Jane Austen’s life would have worn a black tailcoat like this for everyday wear. https://books2read.com/SuziLoveFashionMen1800-1819

1815 ca. Tailcoat, Probably British. Black wool, silk cotton and wood. Double-breasted, cutaway at the front waist, notched collar, straight sleeves, pleat falling from the back waist. via Metropolitan Museum, N.Y.C., U.S.A.
1815 ca. Tailcoat, Probably British. Black wool, silk cotton and wood. Double-breasted, cutaway at the front waist, notched collar, straight sleeves, pleat falling from the back waist. via Metropolitan Museum, N.Y.C., U.S.A.
1815 ca. Tailcoat, Probably British. Black wool, silk cotton and wood. Double-breasted, cutaway at the front waist, notched collar, straight sleeves, pleat falling from the back waist. via Metropolitan Museum, N.Y.C., U.S.A.
1815 ca. Tailcoat, Probably British. Black wool, silk cotton and wood. Double-breasted, cutaway at the front waist, notched collar, straight sleeves, pleat falling from the back waist. via Metropolitan Museum, N.Y.C., U.S.A.
1815 ca. Tailcoat, Probably British. Black wool, silk cotton and wood. Double-breasted, cutaway at the front waist, notched collar, straight sleeves, pleat falling from the back waist. via Metropolitan Museum, N.Y.C., U.S.A.
1815 ca. Tailcoat, Probably British. Black wool, silk cotton and wood. Double-breasted, cutaway at the front waist, notched collar, straight sleeves, pleat falling from the back waist. via Metropolitan Museum, N.Y.C., U.S.A.
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1815 Typical English Dinner In Jane Austen and Bridgerton Times. Two Courses and Desert. #RegencyEra #JaneAusten #Food #History

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1815 Typical English Dinner In Jane Austen and Bridgerton Times. Two Courses and a Desert. From- 1815 Journal of Tour of Great Britain by a French Tourist via Google Books (PD-180)

Typical food served during the early 1800s, or Regency Era. ‘Removes‘ were the dishes removed from the table during a meal, usually the soup and fish, and then replaced by other dishes. After all diners have had a chance to eat all the dishes on the table, the table is cleared and another set of dishes put on the table. This is the second course.

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Why Did Women Wear Chatelaines Dangling From Chains In Bridgerton and Jane Austen’s Times? Women carried essential items on them. #Bridgerton #JaneAusten #RegencyFashion #GeorgianFashion #VictorianFashion

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Jane Austen’s and the Bridgerton ladies personal necessities, keys, or chatelaines was a set of useful items hung from waist by decorative chain. Chatelaines and Chains. History Notes Book 9 By Suzi Love. Women in charge of households dangled long chains from their waists to keep essentials within easy reach e.g. keys, notebook and pen, watch, sewing items, vinaigrette or perfume, or magnifying glass. Early chatelaine were simple essentials. Later chatelaine were decorative and expensive.  http://books2read.com/SuziLoveChatelaines

Definition Chatelaine: The word Chatelaine is French and means the keeper of the keys. Chatelaine” derives from the Latin word for castle. In Medieval times, the chatelaine was in charge of the day-to-day running of the castle. Women in charge of households dangled long chains from their waists to keep essentials within easy reach e.g. keys, notebook and pen, watch, sewing items, vinaigrette or perfume, or magnifying glass. Early chatelaine were simple essentials. Later chatelaine were decorative and expensive. books2read.com/SuziLoveChatelaines

What did a chatelaine do? Most important task was keeper of the keys. Also ordered supplies, did bookkeeping, supervised servants, taught castle children, and organized guests.

hat were chatelaines used for?

  • Castle keepers needed keys safe, yet easily accessible.
  • By 1700’s, a metal jeweled ornament hung from pockets, attached to belts, or by hooks into skirt waistbands
  • During 1800’s, women wore large collections of tools hung from chains
  • Young girls sewed and did needlework and needed to carry sewing notions eg scissors, thimbles
  • Worn by women of all classes, from workers to nobility
  • Varied depending on class and finances.
  • Made of silver, brass, steel, leather, or fabric
  • During 19th century, fashionable dresses often had no waist and nowhere to hang chatelaines
  • Chatelaines became decorative brooches
  • Often given as a wedding present from a husband to bride
  • Later became fashion accessories
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19th Century Food For The Upper Classes In Bridgerton and Jane Austen Times. #Bridgerton #JaneAusten #RegencyEra #HistoricalFood

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19th Century Food For The Upper Classes In Bridgerton and Jane Austen Times.

Typical Meals Served for the upper classes in the Georgian and Regency Eras. For the Upper classes in the 18th and through to the end of the 19th century, meals were elaborate affairs.  and served by well-trained staff anticipated their every need. Women prided themselves on hosting dinners for 50-60 people which often consisted of numerous courses, and all served with the best wines and followed, for the men at least, by expensive port. 

An older lady usually controlled the servants and the serving of meals. For more about this, take a look at Older Lady’s Day Regency Life Series Book 5 by Suzi Love. Overview of what an older lady did, wore, and how she lived in the early 19th Century. Information for history buffs and pictures for readers and writers of historical fiction. books2read.com/suziloveOLD

food_19th Century Typical Family Dishes. Venison, Roast Beef, and Tongue. via 1863 The Book of Household Management By Mrs. Isabella Beeton. Google Books (PD-100)
food_19th Century Typical Light Dishes. Sliced Fowl, Spinach and Poached eggs, Veal, cutlets and Mashed Potatoes, Rissoles. via 1863 The Book of Household Management By Mrs. Isabella Beeton. Google Books (PD-100)
food_ 19th Century Typical Wild Game Dishes. Boiled rabbit, Partridge, Roast Hare, Pheasant, Wild Duck. via 1863 The Book of Household Management By Mrs. Isabella Beeton. Google Books (PD-100)
food_1800s Typical Fowl Dishes Served during the Regency years. Boiled Fowl With Cauliflower,Roast Fowl With Cress via 1863 The Book of Household Management By Mrs. Isabella Beeton. Google Books (PD-100)
food_1800s Typical Fish Dishes Served Sole, Salmon, and Cod. via 1863 The Book of Household Management By Mrs. Isabella Beeton. Google Books (PD-100)
food_1800s Typical Meat Dishes Served via 1863 The Book of Household Management By Mrs. Isabella Beeton. Google Books (PD-100)
food_1800s Typical Modern Table Settings via 1863 The Book of Household Management By Mrs. Isabella Beeton. Google Books (PD-100)
food_1800s TypicalTable Setting 'A La Russe' (Russian style) via 1863 The Book of Household Management By Mrs. Isabella Beeton. Google Books (PD-100)

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What do you know about Chatelaines and Chains worn in Jane Austen’s and Bridgerton times? Women in charge of households carried important items with them. #Bridgerton #JaneAusten #RegencyEra #GeorgianEra #VictorianEra

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Chatelaines and Chains History Notes Book 9 By Suzi Love. What do you know about Chatelaines and Chains worn in Jane Austen’s and Bridgerton times? Women in charge of households carried important items with them. History Notes Book 9 Chatelaines and Chains. books2read.com/SuziLoveChatelaines

Personal Necessities, keys, or chatelaines was a set of useful items hung from waist by decorative chain. Chatelaines and Chains. History Notes Book 9 By Suzi Love. Women in charge of households dangled long chains from their waists to keep essentials within easy reach e.g. keys, notebook and pen, watch, sewing items, vinaigrette or perfume, or magnifying glass. Early chatelaine were simple essentials. Later chatelaine were decorative and expensive. http://books2read.com/SuziLoveChatelaines

Definition Chatelaine: The word Chatelaine is French and means the keeper of the keys. Chatelaine” derives from the Latin word for castle. In Medieval times, the chatelaine was in charge of the day-to-day running of the castle. Women in charge of households dangled long chains from their waists to keep essentials within easy reach e.g. keys, notebook and pen, watch, sewing items, vinaigrette or perfume, or magnifying glass. Early chatelaine were simple essentials. Later chatelaine were decorative and expensive. books2read.com/SuziLoveChatelaines

What did a chatelaine do? Most important task was keeper of the keys. Also ordered supplies, did bookkeeping, supervised servants, taught castle children, and organized guests.

What were chatelaines used for?

  • Castle keepers needed keys safe, yet easily accessible.
  • By 1700’s, a metal jeweled ornament hung from pockets, attached to belts, or by hooks into skirt waistbands
  • During 1800’s, women wore large collections of tools hung from chains
  • Young girls sewed and did needlework and needed to carry sewing notions eg scissors, thimbles
  • Worn by women of all classes, from workers to nobility
  • Varied depending on class and finances.
  • Made of silver, brass, steel, leather, or fabric
  • During 19th century, fashionable dresses often had no waist and nowhere to hang chatelaines
  • Chatelaines became decorative brooches
  • Often given as a wedding present from a husband to bride
  • Later became fashion accessories
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1790-1820 ca. Embroidered Fichus, Or Shoulder Shawls, as worn in Bridgerton and Jane Austen times. #Bridgerton #RegencyFashion #JaneAusten

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1790-1820 ca. Fichus, Or Shoulder Shawls. Short and Long. Embroidered Cream Net Fichus as worn by ladies in the times of Jane Austen. via Whitaker Auction whitakerauction.smugmug.com

Definition Fichu: Triangular piece of lace, muslin, or other cloth worn about the neck and cleavage to fill in a low bodice or neckline and preserve a lady’s modesty. From the French ‘thrown over’. The Bridgerton family and Jane Austen and her female family and friends would have worn a Fichu over a light muslin dress for both warmth and modesty.

1790-1820 ca. Embroidered Cream Net Fichus, Or Shoulder Shawls. #Regency #Fashion
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18th Century Late – 19th Century Early Gloves as worn by women in Jane Austen’s and Bridgerton’s years. #janeausten #bridgerton #regencyfashion

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18th Century Late – 19th Century Early Gloves as worn by women in Jane Austen’s and Bridgerton’s years, French. Silk embroidered with silk. via Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. mfa.org

18th Century Late - 19th Century Early Gloves as worn by women in Jane Austen's and Bridgerton's years, French. Silk embroidered with silk. via Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. mfa.org
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What shoes did the Bridgertons and Jane Austen wear? Gray Slippers, American, with long ankle ties. #JaneAusten #Bridgerton #shoes #regencyfashion

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What shoes did the Bridgertons and Jane Austen wear? Gray Slippers, American, with long ankle ties.

Typical Regency Era women’s footwear as worn by Jane Austen and her contemporaries and by the Bridgerton family were shoes that had low heels, slightly rounded toes, embellished with a bow and with ribbon ties for the ankles. Shoe styles and shapes were generally very plain but then shoes began to be made in bright colors to match the colorful Empire style, or high-waisted, gowns. Plus, as gowns were lighter and floatier, glimpses could be had of these new pretty shoes. Ribbons, rosettes and other decorative. embellishments allowed ladies to personalize shoes.

shoes_19th Century Early. Flat Slippers, American. Gray silk with long ankle ties. via Metropolitan Museum New York City, U.S.A.
shoes_19th Century Early. Flat Slippers, American. Gray silk with long ankle ties. via Metropolitan Museum New York City, U.S.A.
shoes_19th Century Early. Flat Slippers, American. Gray silk with long ankle ties. via Metropolitan Museum New York City, U.S.A.
shoes_19th Century Early. Flat Slippers, American. Gray silk with long ankle ties. via Metropolitan Museum New York City, U.S.A.
shoes_19th Century Early. Flat Slippers, American. Gray silk with long ankle ties. via Metropolitan Museum New York City, U.S.A.
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1813 April White Carriage Dress In Jane Austen and Bridgerton style with Pomona Green Mantle. #RegencyFashion #JaneAusten #Bridgerton

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1813 April Carriage Dress, English. Green coat over white Empire style dress of jaconet or cambric muslin, plaited bodice, long sleeve, deep frill, with a vandyke of needle-work. Russian mantle is made of Pomona or spring green sasnet, lined with white satin, trimmed with a rich frog fringe and closed with a cord or tassel. Close-fitting cottage slouch bonnet of the same material and edged with scalloped lace, tied on the left under the chin with ribbon, and decorated with a small cluster of spring flowers. Reticule, or bag, of the sam fabric, slippers of green kid, and gloves of primrose kid. Fashion Plate via Rudolph Ackermann’s ‘The Repository of Arts’. 

1813 April Carriage Dress, English. Green coat over white Empire style dress of jaconet or cambric muslin, plaited bodice, long sleeve, deep frill, with a vandyke of needle-work. Russian mantle is made of Pomona or spring green sasnet, lined with white satin, trimmed with a rich frog fringe and closed with a cord or tassel. Close-fitting cottage slouch bonnet of the same material and edged with scolloped lace, tied on the left under the chin with ribbon, and decorated with a small cluster of spring flowers. Reticule, or bag, of the sam fabric, slippers of green kid, and gloves of primrose kid. Fashion Plate via Rudolph Ackermann's 'The Repository of Arts'.
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