The Victorian Kitchen Jennifer Davies

There are details of the Victorian culinary technique of preserving; of the five meals a day prepared by the kitchen staff - breakfast, luncheon, tea, dinner and supper; and of a collection of recipes specially adapted from Victorian cookery books. Jennifer Davies also wrote "The Victorian Kitchen Garden" and "The Victorian Flower Garden". The Victorian kitchen by Davies, Jennifer Publication date 1989 Topics Kitchens -- History, Architecture, Victorian, Cooking, Kitchens, Cookery history, Great Britain Houses Kitchens history Publisher London: BBC Books Collection internetarchivebooks; inlibrary; printdisabled Contributor Internet Archive Language English Item Size 438.9M.

The Victorian Kitchen: Davies, Jennifer: 9780563206859: Books - Amazon.caIf you've ever wondered how downstairs provided upstairs with all of those elaborate meals, wonder no more. Davies, a BBC producer, has written a meticulously detailed work about the nerve center of the Victorian home--the kitchen. Be warned: this is not a cookbook so much as book about cooking, although some recipes are.

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Davies, a BBC producer, has written a meticulously detailed work about the nerve center of the Victorian home. Illustrated with period drawings, engravings and colour photographs of the kitchen restored for the BBC television series on which the book is based, this is an insight into a bygone age. The upstairs/downstairs image is of maids in starched aprons overseen by an outwardly stern cook with a heart of gold, but what was life really like below stairs in Victorian times?

Davies, a BBC producer, has written a meticulously detailed work about the nerve center of the Victorian home--the kitchen. Be warned: this is not a cookbook so much as book about cooking, although some recipes are included. The author explains how the kitchen functioned in an era when industry was expanding but.

The Victorian Kitchen by Jennifer Davies Illustrated with period drawings, engravings and colour photographs of the kitchen restored for the BBC television series on which the book is based, this is an insight into a bygone age.