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How did people travel in Bridgerton’s and Jane Austen’s Years? What did they take to make themselves comfortable? #Bridgerton #JaneAusten #GeorgianEra #RegencyEra #VictorianEra

Suzi Love Posted on June 17, 2025 by Suzi LoveJune 14, 2025
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What did an older lady do in Jane Austen and Bridgerton Years? Lighthearted look at daily life for readers and writers of RegencyEra. #JaneAusten #Bridgerton #RegencyEra

Suzi Love Posted on June 15, 2025 by Suzi LoveJune 15, 2025

Light-Hearted look at an Older Lady’s Life In Jane Austen’s Times, or early 1800s. An easy to read 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. Older Lady’s Day, Regency Life Series, Book 5, by Suzi Love.  books2read.com/suziloveOLD

The older lady’s day usually started with her toilette in her bedroom, where her maid helped her dress for the day and styled her hair. After that, she would join her family downstairs for breakfast unless she preferred a tray with either tea or hot chocolate in her bedroom as she prepared for her busy day. Her day would be made up of speaking with the housekeeper and the cook about the week’s menus, assuring that the servants were all available that day and no one was ill, and checking the list of foods needed. She would also enquire if the laundry was up to date and that they had enough good linen to make up all the beds before extended family members and guests arrived. If she was in the country and hosting a weekend house party, she would assign rooms to the guests on her lists and query that all was in readiness for their arrival.

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How did people travel in Jane Austen’s Day? What did they take to make themselves comfortable? #Bridgerton #JaneAusten #GeorgianEra #RegencyEra #VictorianEra

Suzi Love Posted on June 12, 2025 by Suzi LoveJune 12, 2025

Travel and Luggage By Suzi Love History Notes Book 10. How did people travel in Jane Austen’s times. In past centuries? What did they take with them to make their long journeys easier? Travel by road, ship, canal, or railway all took a long time and had dangers so people learned to prepare. And then, in the nineteenth century, road improvements, inventions, and scientific developments made travel more pleasurable. books2read.com/SuziLoveTravel

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What did an older lady do and wear in Jane Austen and Bridgerton Years? Information and pictures for readers and writers of regency history. #JaneAusten #Bridgerton #RegencyEra

Suzi Love Posted on January 19, 2025 by Suzi LoveJanuary 18, 2025

What did an older lady do and wear in the Regency Era? Information & pictures for readers and writers of early 1800s history, nonfiction and fiction. books2read.com/suziloveOLD

The older lady’s day usually started with her toilette in her bedroom, where her maid helped her dress for the day and styled her hair. After that, she would join her family downstairs for breakfast unless she preferred a tray with either tea or hot chocolate in her bedroom as she prepared for her busy day. Her day would be made up of speaking with the housekeeper and the cook about the week’s menus, assuring that the servants were all available that day and no one was ill, and checking the list of foods needed. She would also enquire if the laundry was up to date and that they had enough good linen to make up all the beds before extended family members and guests arrived. If she was in the country and hosting a weekend house party, she would assign rooms to the guests on her lists and query that all was in readiness for their arrival.

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Christmas: Boxing Day History #Christmas #holidays #BritishHistory

Suzi Love Posted on December 26, 2024 by Suzi LoveDecember 17, 2024

The 26th December was St. Stephen’s Day, the first Christian martyr and patron saint of horses, so Boxing Day became associated with horse racing and sports. It was also when the English churches alms boxes were opened and the contents given to the poor of the parish. In the song Good King Wenceslas, the king gave the poor man meat, wine and wood “on the feast of Stephen.” Written by John Mason Neale and first published in 1853, the lyrics celebrate the spirit of Boxing Day which was generosity. King Wenceslas watches a poor man “gath’ring winter fuel. and he then brings the peasant food and logs for his fire.  In parts of Europe, St. Stephen’s Day is considered the second day of Christmas.

On the Boxing Day holiday, servants, apprentices, and the poor were presented with gifts. The origin of the holiday is unknown, but was probably first observed in the Middle Ages and the name may come from the opening of alms boxes that had been placed in churches over the holidays for distribution to the poor. It may also be because servants opened their gift boxes on the day after Christmas because on Christmas Day they were busy cooking and serving a large festive meal for their employers. December 26th is also the feast day of St. Stephen, the first Christian martyr and patron saint of horses, so Boxing Day has now become associated with horse racing and sports.

One of the earliest records of these box gifts dates from 1663. In an entry in his diary, English Parliamentarian Samuel Pepys writes that he sent a coach and messenger to his shoemaker to deliver “something to the boys’ box against Christmas” in addition to funds to cover his bill. During Queen Victoria’s reign, Boxing Day became a chance for church parishioners to deposit donations into a box that was put out for the purpose by the clergyman. The money in the boxes was given to the poor.

Some villages followed the custom of the Hunting of the Wren, where small boys captured a wren, killed it, and then mounted it on a pole and carry to every house in the village while singing a song. Money collected was used for a village dance. In London, and in many other parts of Europe, large families and establishments keep regular lists of tradesman’s servants, apprentices, and other persons, who come about making a sort of annual claim on them for a Christmas box on this day.’

‘The custom of annual donations at Christmas, and on New Year’s-day, is very ancient, being copied by the Christians from the Polytheists of Rome, at the time the public religion was changed. These presents, now-a-days, are more commonly made on the morrow of Christmas. From this circumstance the festival of St. Stephen has got the nickname of Christmas Boxing-day, and by corruption, Boxing-day.’ From:- The Lady’s Monthly Museum, Vernor & Hood: Christmas-boxes, 1824.

‘On the day after Christmas, tradespeople are visited by persons in the employment of their customers for a “Christmas-box,” and every man and boy who thinks he is qualified to ask, solicits from those on whom he calculates as likely to bestow.
A writer, in 1731, describes Boxing-day at that time from his own experience. ” By that time I was up, my servants could do nothing but run to the door. Inquiring the meaning, I was answered, the people were come for their Christmas-box : this was logic to me; but I found at last, that, because I had laid out a great deal of ready-money with my brewer, baker, and other tradesmen, they kindly thought it my duty to present their servants with some money for the favor of having their goods.
This provoked me a little; but being told it was ‘ he custom,’ I complied. These were followed by the watch, beadles, dustmen, and an innumerable tribe; but what vexed me the most was the clerk, who has an extraordinary place, and makes as good an appearance as most tradesmen in the parish; to see him come a boxing, alias begging, I thought was intolerable: however I found it was ‘ the custom’ too, so I gave him half-a-crown; as I was likewise obliged to do to the bellman, for breaking my rest for many nights together.’ From The Every-day book and table book by William Hone, 1839

Boxing Day is one of the many customs and traditions associated with Christmas that is featured in History of Christmases Past (Book 1 History Events) by Suzi Love.

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Christmas: Bring In The Boar’s Head. #Christmas #holidays #customs #BritishHistory #RegencyEra

Suzi Love Posted on December 21, 2024 by Suzi LoveDecember 16, 2024

The Boar’s head At Christmas.

Christmas in the Olden Time by Walter Scott. 

Then was brought in the lusty brawn

By old blue-coated serving man;

Then the grim boar’s head frowned on high,

Crested with bays and rosemary.

Well can the green-garbed ranger tell

How, when and where the monster fell;

What dogs before his death he tore,

And all the baitings of the boar.

The wassal round, in good brown bowls,

Garnished with ribbons, blithely trowls.

There the huge sirloin reeked: hard by

Plum-porridge stood, and Christmas pye;

Nor failed old Scotland to produce,

At such high-tide, her savory goose.

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Bringing In The Boar’s Head From: 1873 January Harper’s New Monthly, Christmas Throughout Christendom.

Because wild boar was the most feared animal, serving it at a meal represented the victory of good over evil. During the 17th century, wild boar became extinct in Britain so a pig’s head was used instead. The head was often presented on a decorated platter with an apple in its mouth and carried in by bearers in a dramatic manner. The tradition of serving ham for Christmas lunch or dinner probably came from the idea of serving boar’s head or roasted boar joints to guests at Christmas.

To say nothing of the roast beef and plum-pudding, Christmas pies, furmity, and snap-dragons, the Yule-log and the mistletoe have not finally abdicated, while the boar’s head, decorated with rosemary or prickly holly, maintains its place at the English Christmas dinner, and is still served up in great state at the royal Christmas table. At Oxford, U.K., the boar’s head was carried in by the strongest of the guardsmen, singing a Christmas carol, and preceded by a forester, a huntsman, and a couple of pages dressed in silk and carrying the mustard which was regarded as a great luxury and  an infallible digester.

The following celebrated carol of the Boar’s Head is found in the book of  ‘Christmasse Carolles’ published in 1521 by Wynkyn de Warde: 

The boar’s head in bande bring I,     

With garlandes gay and rosemary,

I pray you all synge merely,

Qui estis in convivio.

“The bore’s head, I understande,

Is the chefe servyce in this lande.

Loke wherever it be fande,

Servite cum cantico.

“Be gladde, lordes, both more and lasse,

For this bath ordayned our stewarde,

To chere you all this Christmasse,

The bore’s head with mustarde.”

At Oxford, U.K., the boar’s head was carried in by the strongest of the guardsmen, singing a Christmas carol, and preceded by a forester, a huntsman, and a couple of pages dressed in silk and carrying the mustard which was regarded as a great luxury and  an infallible digester. A similar custom appears to have prevailed in Genoa in the times of the Dorias when a boar decorated with branches of laurel and accompanied by trumpeters was annually presented to the Doria family by the Abbot of San Antonio at Pré at midday on the 24th of December.

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Christmas: Candy Cane And It’s Fascinating History #Christmas #holidays #Traditions #Customs

Suzi Love Posted on December 17, 2024 by Suzi LoveDecember 16, 2024

Legend has it that during the 17th century, craftsmen created straight white sticks of candy in the shape of shepherds’ crooks at the suggestion of the choirmaster at the Cologne Cathedral in Germany. The treats were given to children to keep them quiet during ceremonies at the living creche, or Nativity scene, and the custom of passing out the crooks at such ceremonies soon spread throughout Europe.

‘The legends of the candy cane are many, including that the cane was shaped like a “J” for Jesus, the three red stripes symbolized the Holy Trinity, the hardness of the candy represented the Church’s foundation on solid rock and the peppermint flavor reflects the use of hyssop, an herb referred to in the Old Testament.’ via Encyclopedia Britannica

In celebrations of Saint Nicholas Day, candy canes are given to children as they are also said to represent the crosier of the Christian bishop, Saint Nicholas; crosiers themselves allude to the Good Shepherd, a title associated with Jesus. Some people explain the symbolism of a striped cane as white representing Christ’s purity, red the blood he shed, and the three red stripes the Holy Trinity.

In the mid 1600s, sugar roses were added but weren’t popular so plain white canes remained until red stripes were added around 1890. In 1847, a German immigrant living in Wooster, Ohio, U.S.A. looped candy canes that he brought with him from Europe over the boughs of his Christmas tree.

In 1919,  Bob McCormack of Albany, Georgia, made candy canes for family, friends and local shopkeepers. The canes were bent by hand as they came off the assembly line into the  ‘J’ shape of a shepherd’s crook, so breakage was often over 20 percent. In the 1920s, a cherubic child in a red-and-white hat sold peppermint candy cane to Albany natives in an advertisement for Bob’s candy company.  McCormack was the first manufacturer to wrap his candy in cellophane. Bobs moved to a larger facility in the 1930s so that it could expand its product lines and was one of the few candy companies to remain solvent during the Great Depression.

As the economy improved, people bought more sweet treats,  but Bobs Candy was then leveled by a tornado and, as the company had no tornado insurance, they had to rebuild on their own. By August 1940 the company was back in business and employed McCormack’s three children.

During World War II (1941-45), when sugar was rationed, coconuts were in short supply, and pecans were expensive, Bobs took advantage of a plentiful local product—the peanut—and sold peanut-butter crackers and vacuum-packed peanuts. During the 1950s, Bobs began making money with such innovations as break-proof packaging, moisture-proof candy wrappers.

In 1952, Bob McCormack’s brother-in-law, Catholic priest Gregory Keller, invented the Keller Machine which automated the process of twisting soft candy into spiral striping and then cutting them into precise lengths as candy canes.

Harding Keller invented the Keller Machine around 1950 for his brother-in-law Bob McCormack. The machine twisted and cut stick candy, allowing for the mass production of the company’s signature candy canes and other items. – Courtesy of Farley’s and Sathers Candy Company, Inc.

First, candy sticks cut to the desired length enter the machine. Each stick is bent individually, but the machine has a system of multiple grippers and rollers to continually bend the sticks, one after the other. As each stick enters the machine, it is positioned in a gripper which holds the straight portion of the cane with the part to be bent protruding out. Each gripper has on one side a curved die which the protruding end will be bent over. The candy stick is first bent to a right angle as it is moved past and put into contact with an inclined face. The patent application describes two potential versions of the mechanism which complete the bending process.

The first version of the mechanism has a chain around two sprockets on which are mounted bending rollers. Each bending roller is attached to a cam which rides along another inclined face to move the roller along the protruding surface of the cane to complete bending it around the die. In the second version, the chain and sprockets are replaced by a wheel on which the bending rollers are mounted. In modern candy cane production, the sticks are wrapped in cellophane before they are bent.

By the middle of the century, Bob’s company – originally the Famous Candy Company, then the Mills-McCormack Candy Company, and later Bobs Candies, had become one of the world’s leading candy cane producers.Bobs Candies was sold to Farley’s and Sathers in Spring 2005. Farley’s and Sathers merged with the Ferrara Candy Company which continues to make candy canes under the Bobs name.

By the middle of the century, Bob’s company – originally the Famous Candy Company, then the Mills-McCormack Candy Company, and later Bobs Candies, had become one of the world’s leading candy cane producers.

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Christmas: Mince Pies #Christmas #holidays #Food #Traditions #Customs

Suzi Love Posted on December 13, 2024 by Suzi LoveDecember 12, 2024

Christmas Mince Pies.   

‘The following is a valued receipt that has been handed down in a Cornish family for many generations,
and the hand-writing of the receipt book will vouch for its antiquity.
‘A pound of beef-suet chopped fine;
a pound of raisins do. stoned.
A pound of currants cleaned dry.
A pound of apples chopped fine.
Two or three eggs.
Allspice beat very fine, and sugar to your taste.
A little salt, and as much brandy and wine as you like.
An ancient Cornish custom at Christmas.”
A small piece of citron in each pie is an improvement.’
From: 1833 Christmas Carols, Ancient and Modern by William Sandys.

Mince meat pies, or Christmas or Twelfth Night pies, were always part of Christmas feasts. Originally the mince pies were oblong or oval but in the 1600’s, the pies became circular, although were quite large and could weigh up to 20 lbs. In London, they could be brought out on Lord Mayor’s Day which was the 9th of November.

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Timeline of Mince Pies via Minced Pie Club.

  • In the 13th century, crusaders returned from the Middle Eastern with recipes containing meat, fruit and spices mixed together, which helped preserve meat without having to smoke, dry or salt.
  • 1413 King Henry served a mincemeat pie at his coronation.
  • 1588 Good Hous-Wiues Treasurie by Edward Allde: meats were still cut up to be eaten with a spoon and combined with fruits and heavy spices. His recipe for Minst Pye had practically the same ingredients as modern mince pies.
  • 1657 Mince Pies were banned during the reign of Oliver Cromwell, along with other Christian traditions that were classed as gluttony.
  • 1659 Oliver Cromwell’s Puritan influence spread to the American British Colonies and many towns banned mincemeat pies at Christmas time.
  • When pies were reintroduced in Britain, they were a lot smaller and could be served individually to guests and were named Wayfarer pies.
  • 1832 Bill of Fare: no less than one hundred and eleven dishes of mince pies included.
  • More Minced Pie Trivia
  • When the monarchy was restored in 1660, the law regarding Minced Pies was disregarded but apparently never repealed so Mince pies are still, supposedly, illegal.
  • Pastry crusts sink in the middle and are thought to resemble Jesus’ manger so sometimes a small pastry doll was put in the middle and these were called crib pies.
  • Pies could last up to two months in cold weather.
  • Recipes varied by region, but usually included beef, poultry and other meats, suet, sugar, raisins or currants, spices, orange and lemon peel, eggs, apples and brandy.
  • Minced-meat was only supposed to be stirred clockwise, otherwise the stirrer would have bad luck in the coming year. bring bad luck for the coming year.
  • Filling included cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg to represent the gifts of the Magi to the infant Jesus and the star shaped pastry on top represents the star of Bethlehem.
  • If you ate minced pie every day of the twelve days of Christmas you were supposed to have twelve months of happiness, especially if the pies were baked by the dozen and offered by friends.
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Christmas Pudding #Christmas #holidays #Food #Traditions #Customs

Suzi Love Posted on December 5, 2024 by Suzi LoveDecember 5, 2024

Christmas pudding originated as a 14th century porridge called ‘frumenty’ , made of beef and mutton with raisins, currants, prunes, wines and spices. Often more like soup, it was eaten as a fasting meal in preparation for Christmas festivities. By 1595, frumenty changed into a plum pudding thickened with eggs, breadcrumbs, dried fruit and flavoured with beer and spirits. It became the customary Christmas dessert around 1650, but in 1664 the Puritans banned it as a bad custom. In 1714, King George I re-established it as part of the Christmas meal, having tasted and enjoyed Plum Pudding.

“In December, the principal household duty lies in preparing for the creature comforts of those near and dear to us, so as to meet old Christmas with a happy face, a contented mind, and a full larder; and in stoning the plums, washing the currants, cutting the citron, beating the eggs, and mixing the pudding, a housewife is not unworthily greeting the genial season of all good things.” Via 1861 Beeton’s Book of Household Management. 

The Sunday closest to St. Andrew’s Day was Stirring-up Sunday, and the day to prepare the family’s Christmas pudding.  The eldest member of the household or a visitor would give the first stir and charms were stirred into the pudding. A ring meant a coming marriage, a button was bachelorhood, a thimble meant spinsterhood, and a sixpence was good luck. Puddings were steamed in a pudding bag and stored in a cool place until Christmas Day. 

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What did Jane Austen and the Bridgerton family eat? 1800s Typical Food Served and Table Settings Used. #Bridgerton #JaneAusten #RegencyEra #Food #BritishHistory

Suzi Love Posted on September 28, 2024 by Suzi LoveSeptember 22, 2024

1800s Typical Food Served and Table Settings Used. Historic food from Mrs. Beeton’s Household Management, 1882 Warne’ s Model Housekeeper, London, U.K., 1892 Cassel’s Dictionary of Cookery.

1800s Typical China For Serving Dinner and Dessert. Dinner Plates, Soup Tureen, Covered Cheese Dish, Jug, Dessert plates and Serving Dish. From: 1860s Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management. via Google Books (PD-150)
1800s Typical China For Serving Dinner and Dessert.
1800s Typical Regency Era Table Layout For A Dinner. Main dishes down the table center and side dishes on the wings. via Suzi Love ~ suzilove.com & 1882 Warne' s Model Housekeeper, London, U.K.
1800s Typical Regency Era Table Layout For A Dinner.
1800s Typical Joints Of Meat. Sirloin of Beef, Boiled Beef, Leg Of Mutton and Roast Ribs Of Beef. From: 1860s Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management. via Google Books (PD-150)
1800s Typical Joints Of Meat.
1800s Typical Fruits Served. Pineapple, Grapes, Apples, Plums,Green grapes, Apricots, Peaches and Melon. via Suzi Love ~ suzilove.com & 1882 Warne' s Model Housekeeper, London, U.K.
1800s Typical Fruits Served.
1800s Typical Main Meal Dishes. Pigeon Pie, Game Pie, Roast Turkey, Fillets of Fowl and Tongue, Braised Legs of Fowl With Fillets of Tongue. via Suzi Love ~ suzilove.com & 1892 Cassel's Dictionary of Cookery Google Books (PD-120)
1800s Typical Main Meal Dishes.
1800s Typical Salad and Vegetable Dishes. Asparagus, Sea Kale, Mixed Salad, Artichokes, Spinach and Eggs, Salad In Jelly, Jellied Tomatoes, Baked Potatoes, Russian Salad, Brussel Sprouts, Cauliflowers,Spanish Onions, Vegetable Fritters and Potato Croquettes. via The Art Of Food.
1800s Typical Salad and Vegetable Dishes.
1800s Typical Soups. Mutton Broth, Potato Feu, Tomato Soup, Kidney Soup, Consomme and more. From: 1860s Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management. via Google Books (PD-150)
1800s Typical Soups.
1800s Typical Sweet Dishes. Pancakes, Rice and Apple Cake, Eclairs, Assorted Pastries, Rice Pudding, Stewed Fruits, Sugar Treats, Pyramid Creams, Croquettes of Rice, Layer Cake and Sultana Cake. From: 1860s Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management. via Google Books (PD-150)
1800s Typical Sweet Dishes.
1800s Typical Vegetable Dishes. Croquette Potatoes, Spinach and Egg, Asparagus, Cauliflower, Wafer Potatoes, Mushrooms, New Peas, French Beans, Stuffed Tomatoes and New Carrots. From: 1860s Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management. via Google Books (PD-150)
1800s Typical Vegetable Dishes.
1800s Typical Fish Dishes. Scallops au Gratin, Red Mullet, Turbot, Cod Steak, Fried Sole, Mayonnaise Salmon, Salmon au Naturel, Brown Trout and Smelts. From: 1860s Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management. via Google Books (PD-150)
1800s Typical Fish Dishes.
1800s Typical Seafood Dishes. Oyster Patties, Fried Whiting, Boiled Turbot, Fried Whitebait, Mackerel, Mayonnaise Of Salmon, Lobster and Crab. via 1892 Cassell's Dictionary of Cookery Google Books (PD-120)
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