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Victorian England became known throughout Europe for its bland and unappetizing food but many housewives cooked in this fashion since it was the safest way to prepare food before refrigeration. [2] The Victorian breakfast was usually a heavy meal: sausages, preserves, bacon and eggs, served with bread rolls.
Ruth Mott (5 February 1917 – 28 July 2012) was an English domestic servant who became a television cook and personality. Mott spent most of her life working in country houses with her television work not beginning until the age of 70, when her knowledge of a working Victorian kitchen was used for the television show The Victorian Kitchen.
[3] In Lincolnshire, funeral biscuits were part of the tradition of telling the bees of their owner's death in the early 19th century. [4] In early North America, the biscuits were stamped with burial motifs or symbols, [5] such as a winged head or cherub, or an hourglass or skull. [6]
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Agnes Bertha Marshall (born Agnes Beere Smith; 24 August 1852 [2] – 29 July 1905) was an English culinary entrepreneur, inventor, and celebrity chef. [3] An unusually prominent businesswoman for her time, Marshall was particularly known for her work on ice cream and other frozen desserts, which in Victorian England earned her the moniker "Queen of Ices".
Charles Elmé Francatelli (1805 – 10 August 1876) was a British chef, known for four cookery books popular in the Victorian era, including The Modern Cook.He trained in Paris under Antonin Carême and became one of London's best-known chefs, succeeding Louis Eustache Ude at Crockford's Club and following Alexis Soyer at the Reform Club.
Charles Walter Forward (19 August 1863 – 9 June 1934) was an English activist, writer, and editor, notable for his advocacy of animal rights and vegetarianism.Forward made significant contributions to the vegetarian movement and is best known for his 1898 work, Fifty Years of Food Reform, which was the first book to document its history.
A dead cake is a type of food that is traditionally eaten at a wake to honour the deceased individual. It is closely related to the folklore of funeral customs. The 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica states: ...in the Balkan peninsula a small bread image of the deceased is made and eaten by the survivors of the family.