Health & diet learning journey
Follow the Learning Journey Steps and sample the food at Lancashire's Cottonopolis Restaurant. Choose from our extensive range of original menus!
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Health & Diet Learning Journey Step 2: The Victorian Family Dinner Menu
Meals for the comfortably off middle class familyStoring food for long periods of time without a refrigerator or freezer is difficult so our family dinner menus change with the seasons as different foods become available in spring, summer, autumn and winter. Enjoy this week's selection: Sunday Clear gravy soup, roast haunch of mutton, sea kale, potatoes, rhubarb tart, custard in glasses. Monday Crimped skate and caper sauce, boiled knuckle of veal and rice, cold mutton, stewed rhubarb and baked custard pudding. Tuesday Vegetable Soup, Toad in the hole (from remains of cold mutton), stewed rhubarb and baked plum pudding Wednesday Fried soles, Dutch sauce, boiled beef, suet dumplings, lemon pudding. Thursday Pea soup, from boiled beef liquor, cold beef, mashed potatoes, mutton cutlets and tomato sauce, macaroni. Friday Bubble and squeak, made with remains of cold beef, roast shoulder of veal, stuffed, and spinach and potatoes, boiled batter pudding and sweet sauce. Saturday Stewed Veal, and vegetables, from remains of shoulder, boiled rumpsteaks and oyster sauce, dumplings. (source: Mrs Beeton's Household Management (1861) 1st edition, Ward, Locke & Co. London) Click on the images below to try more recipes from Mrs Beeton,s Family Dinner Menus Write down your family dinner menus for a week and compare them with these family dinners - what are the main differences? |
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