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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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Do you need more factual and visual information for your historical fiction? Fashion, music, peerage and customs 18th and 19th centuries. #GeorgianEra #RegencyEra #VictorianEra

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Do you need more factual and visual information for your historical fiction? History of fashion, music, peerage and customs in 18th and 19th centuries. Non-fiction series full of gorgeous pictures and engraved fashion plates. A visual history of fashion, music, peerage, social manners and customs from late 1700s to late 1800s, or 18th and 19th centuries.

Non-fiction series of pictures and fashion plates. History of fashion, music, peerage and customs in 18th and 19th centuries. #Georgian #Regency books2read.com/suziloveBoxesCases books2read.com/SuziLoveChatelaines
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1800s Typical Breakfast and Tea China Used In English Households Like Jane Austen’s. #Food #RegencyEra #JaneAusten #BritishHistory

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1800s Typical Breakfast and Tea China, England. Tea cups, Bread and Butter plates, Teapot, Butter Dish, Coffee Cups, Tea Set, Milk Jug, Water Jug, Bread Dish, Sardine Dish, Bacon Dish, Marmalade Jar and Breakfast Cups. From: 1860 Mrs. Isabella Beeton’s Book of Household Management. These are the sort of salads that Jane Austen’s family would have eaten to accompany main dishes during the early 1800s, or Regency Era.

1800s Typical Breakfast and Tea China, England. Tea cups, Bread and Butter plates, Teapot, Butter Dish, Coffee Cups, Tea Set, Milk Jug, Water Jug, Bread Dish, Sardine Dish, Bacon Dish, Marmalade Jar and Breakfast Cups. From: 1860 Mrs. Isabella Beeton's Book of Household Management.
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1800s Typical Salads Served With Main Meals In Households Like Jane Austen’s and the Bridgerton’s. #Food #RegencyEra #JaneAusten #Bridgerton

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What salads were served in Jane Austen and the Bridgerton households?
Salads
“Persons in health, who feel a craving for salad, may indulge in the enjoyment of it to a great extent with perfect impunity, if not with positive benefit.
Oil, when mixed in salad, appears to render the raw vegetables and herbs more digestible.
Vinegar likewise promotes the digestion of lettuce, celery, and beet-root.

“Endive is very wholesome, strengthening, and easy of digestion; but when strong seasoning is added to it, it becomes an epicurean sauce. — Mayo.”

Recipe for a Winter Salad, by the late Rev. Sydney Smith.
Two large potatoes, passed through kitchen sieve, Unwonted softness to the salad give, Of mordent mustard add a single spoon;
To add a double quantity of salt;
Three times the spoon with oil of Lucca crown,
And once with vinegar, procured from town.
True flavor needs it, and your poet begs
The pounded yellow of two well-boiled eggs.
Let onion atoms lurk within the bowl,
And, scarce suspected, animate the whole;
And, lastly, on the flavored compound toss
A magic teaspoon of anchovy sauce.
Then, though green turtle fail, though venison’s tough, And ham and turkey are not boiled enough,
Serenely full the Epicure may say,-
Fate cannot harm me—I have dined to-day!

The Spanish proverb says four persons are wanted to make a good salad: a spendthrift for oil, a miser for vinegar, a counsellor for salt, and a madman to stir all up.

1859 Hints for the Table by John Timbs.

1800s Typical Salads: Cucumber, Beetroot and Potato, Macedone Salad, Tomato Salad, Jellied Russian and Italian Salads, Prawn Salad, Egg and Lettuce, Lobster Salad and Salad Dumas. From: Mrs. Beeton’s Book of Household Management. via Google Books (PD-150)

1800s Typical Salads Served, Cucumber, Beetroot and Potato, Macedone Salad, Tomato Salad, Jellied Russian and Italian Salads, Prawn Salad, Egg and Lettuce, Lobster Salad and Salad Dumas. From: 1860s Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management. via Google Books (PD-150)
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19th Century Mother Of Pearl Carnet De Bal Or Dance Card, as used at balls in the years of Jane Austen and the Bridgertons. #janeausten #bridgerton #Dancing #Antiques

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19th Century Mother Of Pearl Carnet De Bal Or Dance Card, French. via Ruby Lane Antiques.

19th Century Mother Of Pearl Carnet De Bal Or Dan

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1863 Traveler’s Chest With Sewing Tools, Perfume and Notebook. #sewing #Antique #VictorianEra

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1863 Traveler’s Chest, French. Sewing Tools, Ruby Perfume, Aide de Memoire or Notebook, etc. Inside lid with theatre curtains. via Ruby Lane Antiques. rubylane.com

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1826 Cartoon: The Dinner Party By Robert Cruikshank. From Regency Family Life. #RegencyEra #Cartoon #England

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1826 The Dinner Party. Social Life. From 1826 The English Spy By Robert Cruikshank. via Google Books (PD-180). https://books2read.com/suziloveOLD

1826 The Dinner Party. Regency Social Life. From The English Spy By Robert Cruikshank.
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1826 Cartoon: Bath Beau and His Lady. From Regency Life Around England. #RegencyEra #Cartoon #England

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1826 Bath Beau and His Lady. Photo Editing By Suzi Love. ~ suzilove.com
From: 1826 The English Spy By Robert Cruikshank via Google Books (PD-150)

1826 The Dinner Party. A Regency Gentleman's Life. From The English Spy By Robert Cruikshank.
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Fan of Regency London in the times of Jane Austen and Bridgertons? Regency Overview Book 1 Regency Life Series #JaneAusten #RegencyEra #Bridgerton #Nonfiction #amwriting

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Jane Austen Or Bridgerton Style Chatelaines or Personal Necessities. Set of useful items hung from waist by decorative chain. #bridgerton #RegencyEra #JaneAusten #Chatelaine

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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

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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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