Food In The Victorian Era

I warn you, you may want get yourself a snack before reading this because you may get a little hungry reading about all the foods the people ate in the victorian era. Queen Victoria preferred more simple meals and pretty soon it became a normal thing to have more simple meals, so you won’t be hearing of anything to crazy. Though don’t get me wrong, the brits loved and valued their food back in the victorian times. Food was an excellent way to tie families or friends together. Now, you get to read about all the snacks, beverages, the street vendors that were everywhere, how they cooked or prepared meals, their holiday meals, and their everyday diet and routine with food.

Since the victorians would usually only eat two big meals and day (while
Which included cooking tools that made making food much easier and with more variety. Other developments like kitchen gadgets and food sterilization techniques continued in a revolution in the food progress of the victorian people (Food Habits of the Victorian Era). Once railroads became popular, it had established a way to bring fish to the people from coastal ports to the inland (Paterson).This provided a new source of cheaper protein (they could be frozen in the train). Railroads also helped bring in other foods and resources like livestock. Though as I had said earlier, milk was a much more complicated thing to transport until the 70s when mechanical coolers were introduced. To prepare meals, many spices were used like pepper, ginger, cinnamon, mace, etc, which were all used in great quantities to prepare dishes. WIth all of these new inventions and progressions in preparing food, the victorian era was well known for their simple but divine
The first meal was breakfast, and was also considered to many, the most important meal of the day. The people then did not take that lightly, breakfast was filled with lots of food to charge you for the day. If you were in a farming industry you would tend to eat much better with a diet of meat, veggies, and even fresh milk which was often available (Victorian Food). People who worked at farms had a much better diet because they could store food year long like vegetables and meat, while city people couldn’t really do that and would have to eat what they got when they got it (Victorian Food). Middle class breakfasts were filled with bacon, eggs, ham, haddock, coffee, fruits and bread (Victorian Food). After this breakfast, a light midday lunch often followed that would have any of the popular foods like cheese, fruits, especially afternoon tea, vegetables, bread,