19th Century Typical Meals and Table Settings for the Family and For Guests. This is typical of the food that would have been served at Jane Austen’s meal times. Historic food from 1860s Mrs. Beeton’s Household Management.
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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
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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.
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)
19th Century Mother Of Pearl Carnet De Bal Or Dance Card, French. via Ruby Lane Antiques.
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
1826 The Dinner Party. Social Life. From 1826 The English Spy By Robert Cruikshank. via Google Books (PD-180). https://books2read.com/suziloveOLD
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)
