can you tell me what type of food was common in the victorian era,and how were homes heated, please.?

Question

i am doing research on the victorian era and would also like to know about their type of furniture and fireplaces.

Answer 1

As far as heating... they had coal fires.

Answer 2

Homes were heated by coal or wooden logs as most victorian housing had fireplaces in each room, including bedrooms. The fireplaces were usually made from cast Iron with a wooden surround that had a mantle shelf for ornaments. The poorer homes had smaller and less costly versions of this.
The cooking was normally done on a kitchen range which had a fire grate and hooks above the fire for hanging kettles etc with a shelf to the front for pots and pans. There was usually an oven to the side of the fire for baking bread and cakes. The range was black-leaded every week so it had a black shine. Black lead was a graphite mixture made for that purpose.
The food had to be fresh as refrigeration was not invented until later. More affluent housholds had ice houses for storage of food and pickling, drying and salting of meat and preserving fruit in sugar (Jam ) were ways of keeping food longer.

Answer 3

This is a double class Question. Firstly you had the well to do, they lived in big house's with cleaning and waiting,they also had maids a butler a valet and a cook with her kitchen staff
They ate very well all good home cooking Breakfast was probable the easiest meal of the day, sausage/bacon/kidney/kedgeree/fried slice/mushrooms/tomato/egg and toast washed down with Tea
They usually didn't have lunch, but had a nice high tea in the drawing room,
Dinner, would be formal everyone dressed for dinner, Which consisted of a starter/fish coarse/meat coarse/pudding and this was usually washed down with wine's and port.
Each room in the house had a fire place and fires were lit by one of the kitchen staff.
A good life but very stuffy

The Second class was the common people the people who couldn't,t afford usually more than a very small house or 1 room where the whole family lived and slept one fire which was used for cooking heating up water to wash and do the laundry, enc-forth a lot of people died of fever or many other diseases they ate what ever they could get hold of mostly pot-age but sometime if they were lucky they got a rabbit or a chicken.
schooling was not heard of for the poor. Small boys had to do some terrible jobs to survive climbing up chimney's was one. not a very nice life but they got through

Answer 4

Good grief! Are you asking enough!

Try the website below - I am hoping you are old enough to understand all the stuff it comes up with (some of the links are quite deep!) - but I presume so if you are doing your homework at this time of night! (oh, and I hope it's not for tomorrow!)

Also try putting 'victorian food' in search engines (in quotes!), as well as 'Victorian Fireplaces'

Answer 5

Food , heating?
They ate lots of cold meats and salted meats. Charles Dickins novels are a very good information source for the food question. Oliver Twist ate watery soup.
They also had cheese and dairy,mutton and oxtail and mainly the vegetables that grow in this country like potatoes, carrots cabbages turnips etc.
Look at this website:
http://www.victorianweb.org/science/health/health8.html
Mutton chitterlings and tripe mmmmmmmmmmmm.

http://www.spinningtheweb.org.uk/journey.php?Title=Health+diet+learning+journey&step=2&theme=people this is a less specialistg website for kids

the heating thing...most people had a fire place that used coal, that was why you got the city smog, and had the famous chimney sweeps.

Answer 6

Coal or wood fires in every room and for the food look at Mrs. Beatons. Isabella Mary Beeton
1866/1867: How to manage house and servants, and make the most of your means. London. 268 c.273
c1870: Beetons penny cookery book. London. 1781 f.271
1871: How to manage house, servants and children, with bills of fayre for all the year round. London. 268 c.136
1873: The management of children in health and sickness. Beetons house and home books series. London. 151 o.263
1890: Mrs Beetons cookery book and household guide. New and greatly enlarged edition. London. 1781 e.79

Answer 7

This isn't research! You're asking someone else to do the research for you! On the Internet you don't need to have a www address, you can type in key words. If Yahoo! doesn't come up with the goods you can try Google, but the information's out there.

Answer 8

Good unadutarated food of all seasonal types, heating by natural fires and gas lights or candles.

Answer 9

bit late to be doing your homework! Tut tut!

http://www.housemouse.net/hkitch6.htm

And the fireplace was used to heat the home...coal most common, also wood

Answer 10

the victorians used to heat their rooms with a log fire and they used to eat lots of soup, veggies broth,.