Christmas Customs
Colour Food Plates
1923 Edition of Mrs Beeton's Family Cookery - Food History
By Pauline Weston Thomas for Fashion-Era.comMrs Beeton's Food Plates
- My 1923 Mrs Beeton's Family Cookery Book
- Mrs Beeton's Contribution to Society
- Single Food Colour Plate of Game
- Mrs Beeton's Food Colour Plates 1923
- Christmas Plum Pudding
- Page Update Feb 2009 - Mrs Beeton's Family Cookery Book 1923
- Mrs Beeton's Family Household Management Book 1923
Mrs Beeton's Contribution to Society
My 1923 Mrs Beeton's Family Cookery Book
Food is considered important by many to set the tone of an occasion such as Christmas. During the Victorian era the mass publication of books and weekly periodicals drew attention to domestic skills. In the Victorian era, Mrs. Beeton's book of Household Management was important in setting down some written rules on how to cope with domestic duties. A skilled organiser and businesswoman, cooking was just one of the arts that Mrs. Beeton explored. I have a 1923 edition of Mrs. Beeton's Family Cookery. (See accurate cover book naming below.) In this 1923 edition, there are no less than five recipes for variations on Xmas pudding. The recipe for one is given on another page here. On the flyleaf, the book states that it contains ' Nearly 3000 Practical Recipes' . It has other sections too on menus, servant's duties and includes a chapter on napkin folding. In addition it has 20 full colour plates and they display food in a delightful way. This was probably much as the Edwardians and late Victorians in wealthy families expected their food to look like when taken to the table. Food was presented as ornamentation to the table. I include 9 of the better colour plates as thumbnails on this page and all enlarge to a nice size for more detail. I have spent hours cleaning up the age marks on these images and they should not be reproduced for sale elsewhere. You are reading an original Mrs Beeton food history article by Pauline Weston Thomas at www.fashion-era.com ©. Game - Poultry and Game is a traditional aspect of Christmas foods and can often bring applause when taken into a dining room set atop a large platter and surrounded by interesting accompaniments. The antique colour food plate here shows how the meats when dressed might have looked in the 1920s or earlier eras
From left to right.
- 1. Barded Partridge
- 2. Roast Partridges
- 3. Roast Surrey Fowls
- 4. Larded Guinea Fowl
- 5. Roast Plovers
- 6. Stuffed Capon à la Mayonnaise
- 7. Roast Gosling
- 8. Roast Pigeons
Mrs Beeton's Food Colour Plates 1923 Edition
Mrs Beeton's Food Colour Plates 1923 Edition
Many of Mrs Beeton's original recipes were untested and sometimes quantities given were enough to feed 12 people and alarm people today when they read the old recipes. Yet that was not so very terrible - for festive occasions and family gatherings 12 portions might well have been required. In many cases servants also ate the remains of food and this would have been taken into consideration during preparation.
Fish
Game
Chaudfroid Dishes
Hors d'Ouvres
Vegetables
Cold Entrees
Dessert Fruits
Sweets & Gateaux
Page Update Feb 2009
Mrs Beeton's Family Cookery Book 1923
Please do not confuse this Mrs Beeton's Family Cookery book with her Household Management book. My copy of the 1923 cookery book contains 896 numbered pages plus some nineteen additional end piece advert pages. This is the cookery book version that has the Mrs Beeton Christmas Pudding recipes I have printed here.Mrs Beeton's Family Household Management Book 1923 - A Complete Cookery Course
The Mrs Beeton's Household Management book contains 1676 pages and the frontispiece is shown below. BUT.... a site reader told me they had bought this version of the book since it does state it is A Complete Cookery Course. They found it did not contain the Christmas pudding recipes - so please be warned in your searches for the book at sources like EBay or Abebooks. If you want the version with her Christmas Pudding recipes then buy The Mrs' Beeton's Family Cookery version. Or read them on my Beeton pudding page here. And remember in credit crunch times then both of these books, as well as luxury foods will be full of old fashioned thrifty tips that make the best use of ingredients in season. Happy cooking. You have been reading an original Mrs Beeton food history article by Pauline Weston Thomas at www.fashion-era.com ©.See Topics Below for More Ideas on Christmas Traditions, Customs, and Recipes
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