Discover the traditional Victorian method of making Red Hot Cinnamon Candy.

The recipe, set out by The Daily Frugal Life blog, says that much of the potato’s nutrition is in its skin.Instead of peeling them, cut them up and cook in boiling water without salt. This ...

Some recipes were more extravagant than our typical modern Christmas dinner, like the Yorkshire or Christmas Pie from The Modern Cook by Charles Elme Francatelli (1846), which featured five ...

Some recipes were more extravagant than our typical modern Christmas dinner, like the “Yorkshire or Christmas Pie” from The Modern Cook by Charles Elme Francatelli (1846), which featured five ...

This recipe, taken from a popular, London-based periodical that included items of fashion, literature, current events, recipes and domestic advice, is typical of the 19th-century recipe form.

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens was published in 1843 – the same year as the first Christmas card. Over the course of the 19th century, his de ...

English food writer Eliza Acton’s book Modern Cookery was highly popular over the 19th century. She introduced structure to her recipes before Beeton, though many claim the latter was the first to ...

The cover of "When Southern Women Cook" and authors Toni Tipton-Martin (left) and Morgan Bolling (right). (Courtesy of America's Test Kitchen) Editor's note: This segment was rebroadcast on April ...

Kent’s cooking is so connected to place that it warrants its own genre: coastal Victorian food. Advertisement. ... plus 10,000 recipes, a daily feed of restaurant news and healthy eating advice.

Mary Poppins came out in 1964, long after women got the right to vote both in the U.K. and the U.S., but Mrs. Banks embodies many of the Victorian arguments against women’s suffrage (and ...