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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.
[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]
The Greedy Queen: Eating With Victoria [14] The Official Downton Abbey Cookbook [15] [16] From the Alps to the Dales: 100 Years of Bettys [17] Victory in the Kitchen: The Life of Churchill's Cook [18] At Christmas We Feast: Festive Food Through the Ages [19] Food for Thought: Selected Writings on Food; How to Cook The Victorian Way with Mrs ...
"Tragedy, Transformation, and Triumph: Comparing the Factors and Forces That Led to the Adoption of the 1860 Adulteration Act in England and the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act in the United States". Food and Drug Law Journal. 69 (2): 315– 342. PMID 25163213. Monier-Williams, G. W. (December 1951). "Historical Aspects of the Pure Food Laws".
"Audley End" from Morris's Country Seats (1880). Avis Crocombe (c. 1839–1927) was an English domestic servant who was the head cook during the 1880s at Audley End House, a 17th-century country house near Saffron Walden in England.
In the early 19th century, the family business of William Banting of St. James's Street, London, was among the most eminent companies of funeral directors in Britain. As funeral directors to the Royal Household itself, the Banting family conducted the funerals of King George III in 1820, King George IV in 1830, the Duke of Gloucester in 1834, the Duke of Wellington in 1852, Prince Albert in ...
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.
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".