Christmas A La Queen Victoria



Pictures courtesy of Nishe/Photography
Book: The Curious World Of Christmas by Niall Edworthy

At Queen Victoria's command, large amounts of food were given to the poor from Windsor castle each christmas day. The provisions included a half-a-ton of pudding, a ton of bread, vast quantities of beef and potatoes, tons of coal, thousands of blankets and hundreds of cloaks.

Potages

Consommé à la Monaco. Du Berry

 

Poissons

Filet de Sole à la Vassant

Eperlans frits, sauce verneuil

 

Entrée

Cotelettes de Volaille à la York

 

Relevée

Dindes a la chipolata

Roast Beef. Chine of Pork

 

Entremêts

Asperges, sauce Hollandaise

Mince Pies. Plum Pudding

Gelée d'Orange à L' Ànglaise

 

Buffet

Baron of Beef

Boar's Head

Game Pie

Woodcock Pie

Brawn

Roast Fowl

Tongue

 

Queen Victoria's Christmas

Dinner at Windsor in 1899