Boiled Hooves Turned Sweet Imagine slicing into a dessert that wobbled like modern Jell-O, only to discover it was made by ...

Porter (1/2 to 1 cup of dark, sweet beer - Guinness is fine, or brandy or sweet sherry can be substituted) Optional: mixed spice, ground ginger, juice of an orange. Quantities are very vague. The ...

Much research went into the menu for Madelyn and Michael Bender’s “Dining with Dickens Christmas feast,” which grew in the process from a small dinner party to a buffet for nearly 50. For help with ...

Picture yourself at an elegant Victorian dinner party. Candlelight flickers across fine china, crystal glasses gleam, and ...

Several Victorian cookbooks offered grilling as a common preparation method for fish. Vinaigrette: ¼ cup lemon juice ¼ teaspoon Dijon mustard ½ teaspoon whole-grain mustard 1 tablespoon minced ...

Recreate Victorian times with our recipes from 100 years ago. Ditch the turkey and go for old-fashioned meats and try dishes inspired by history. Recipes created by food historian Ivan Day. Pot roast ...

Video recreations of recipes by a Victorian-era cook have been watched more than 12 million times online. Avis Crocombe cooked at Audley End House in Essex in the 1880s and made dishes including ...

Recipes, cures and handy hints from a Victorian housewife have been given a new lease of life on the internet. Over the years, Sarah Matthews, born in 1893, noted down all her recipes for cakes, cures ...

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens was published in 1843 – the same year as the first Christmas card. Over the course of the 19th century, his depictions of the Christmas turkey and charitable ...

The Guernsey Botanical Trust is looking for local family recipes dating back to the Victorian era. The recipes will appear in the next series of books raising funds for the restoration of the ...