I Ate Only Victorian Food for a Week
V. Birchwood
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I'm a daily wearer of historical clothing and a Volga Tatar. I’m also passionate about experimental archaeology. I show how these aspects can intersect, by glimpsing firsthand into what it may have been like for people historically, applied in a modern context. I also discuss historical fashion and hand sewing and how we can interact with the world in a more compassionate, sustainable, and connected way. For business inquiries please contact: [email protected] For my own everyday clothing, I wear Ancient Greek, Viking, Medieval, Renaissance, Victorian, and other eras, as well as incorporating more of my Indigenous (Turkic) dress. All the garments I make for myself are 100% hand-stitched and are slow to construct! I feel working by hand is a wonderful way to connect with the process of sewing and to show the durability of hand-sewn garments. This is a welcoming space for all genders, sexualities, ethnicities, and any other marginalised groups.
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[AD] Thanks so much to June's Journey for sponsoring this video! Download June’s Journey for free by clicking the link. The game is available on iOS and Android mobile devices, as well as on PC: https://cherrypick.gg/VBirchwood-JJ-DEC24 Welcome to another episode of the Historical Food Week series. This time I'm travelling to the Victorian era and eating only Victorian food for an entire week. If you'd like to support the making of future videos like this one, then please consider joining my Patreon for just €4.00 per month ☺️✨ https://www.patreon.com/c/vbirchwood Mrs. Beeton's Everyday Cookery is where I obtained all the recipes for this week. It is believed to have been originally printed in the 1860s, and here is a link to an early 1900s edition in the public domain: https://archive.org/details/mrs-beetons-everyday-cookery/ Thank you so much for watching and for supporting my channel. ✨ Leave a donation: https://ko-fi.com/vbirchwood 🪡 Follow me on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/vasibirchwood/ 📖 Business inquiries - [email protected] There were many amazing-sounding recipes that I didn't get to make during this week. Here are some from Mrs. Beeton's Everyday Cookery that stood out to me: Baked yams pg. 727 Tomato and lentil stew pg. 673 Vegetable salad mixed pg. 707 Water souchet pg. 717 White soup pg. 721 Winter soup pg. 726 Winter salad pg. 725 Succotash pg. 656 Squab pie pg. 652 Spinach and egg salad pg. 649 Soles with mushrooms pg. 646 Snow cake pg. 643 Shrimp salad pg. 640 Shrimps curried pg. 641 Scallops and mushrooms pg. 629 Sardine and tomato sandwiches pg. 624 Roman salad pg. 612 Rice soup pg. 609 Potato omelet pg. 573 Parkin pg. 533 Oysters on toast. Pg. 531 Mutton and potato pie pg. 403 Mushroom ketchup pg. 488 Mush pg. 487 Milk soup pg. 482 Savoury meat toast pg. 478 Smoke mackerel pg. 469 Macaroni pudding pg. 466 Liver and lemon sauce pg. 455 Lettuce soup pg. 453 Lentil porridge pg. 452 Leeks with poached eggs pg. 446 Lamb cutlets with cucumber pg. 437 Kidney toast pg. 433 Kaiser pudding pg. 430 Hotch potch pg. 419 Haddock soup pg. 402 Gruel oatmeal and barley pg. 400 Ground rice blancmange pg. 399 Green pea and bean salad pg. 397 Gravy pg. 394 Geneva pudding pg. 381 Flemish soup pg. 369 Eggs with mushrooms pg. 354 Endive salad pg. 355 Egg sandwiches pg. 347 Egg soup pg. 347 Danish pudding pg. 333 Cucumber with parsley sauce pg. 321 Curried cod pg. 298 Cock-a-leekie soup pg. 295 Chicken salad pg. 280 Carrot soup with rice pg. 251 Carrots and turnips pg. 251 Carrot and lentil soup pg. 249 Cabbage soup pg. 233 Bubble and squeak pg. 228 Brussel sprouts soup pg. 228 Brown vegetable soup pg. 227 Benevolent soup pg. 206 Beef sandwiches pg. 197 Bananas fried pg. 177 Baked soup pg. 174 Apricots and rice pg. 162 Apple fool pg. 152 Anchovy and egg sandwiches pg. 146 Sources: https://www.bookbrunch.co.uk/page/free-article/the-british-and-reading-a-short-history/ https://www.bbc.com/news/health-43323098 https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-37654373 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK524996/ https://dickensmuseum.com/blogs/charles-dickens-museum/class-in-victorian-cookbooks-by-dr-lucy-dow https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mrs._Beeton%27s_Book_of_Household_Management https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabella_Beeton Other Victorian Cookbooks: https://archive.org/details/cu31924001387111 https://archive.org/details/b21530944/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/mrs-beetons-household-management/page/n3/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/b21505883_0005/mode/2up Images: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Corset1878taille46_300gram.png https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Isabella_Beeton_-_Mrs_Beeton%27s_Book_of_Household_Management_-_title_page.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Isabella_Mary_Beeton.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Blancmange_on_plate.jpg Apmarles, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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