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How To Make Victorian Sugarplums
How to make Victorian Sugar Plums, the dried, sugared fruits often hung from Christmas trees as treats to be given to out to children and as gifts.
How To Make Victorian Sugarplums
The Victorians hung sweets and dried, sugared fruits from their Christmas trees as treats to be given to out to children and as gifts. They would make pretty coloured boxes or cones of paper to hang them in.
How To Make Victorian Wassail Punch
This warming Christmas drink was originally part of pagan ritual to ensure good health and a plentiful apple harvest, and would have been drunk in midwinter in the apple orchards.
How To Make Victorian Wassail Punch
How To Make Victorian Wassail Punch This warming Christmas drink was originally part of pagan ritual to ensure good health and a plentiful apple harvest, and would have been drunk in midwinter in the apple orchards. By Victorian times, the drink was still one to wish good health but was served to carol singers who were invited into the house to warm themselves with a drink from the wassail bowl. Here's how to make your own Victorian…
The Victorian Dinner Party
Victorian dinner parties were opportunities to show one’s affluence and style and sometimes a hostess would choose a theme.
The Victorian Dinner Party
The Victorian dinner party was a grand, flamboyant and opulent affair. Picture if you will an endless procession of soups, fish, meats, salads, vegetables, puddings, ices, meringues and pastries served on exquisitely decorated china and serving dishes and a dining table heavily decorated with flowers, ferns and stands of fruit and decorated cakes. By the mid 1870’s it was not uncommon for up to 12 or 13 courses to be served by the…
