1st Edition

Food in Nineteenth-Century British History Volume Three: Mealtimes

Edited By Ian Miller Copyright 2025
534 Pages
by Routledge

534 Pages
by Routledge

A curious phenomenon occurred in British food writing from around the 1860s. Publishers began printing books dedicated to specific meals. Breakfast. Luncheons. Afternoon Tea. Dinners. Until this time, most cookbooks had been hefty tomes containing hundreds of pages of recipes, but the new recipe books were slimmer and more accessible, catering for a broader readership. The appearance of focused... Read more

VOLUME III MEALTIMES

Series Preface
General Editors’ Introduction
Volume III Introduction

PART 1: Breakfast
Introduction
1 The Breakfast Book: A Cookery Book for the Morning Meal
G. HILL
2 Handbook for the Breakfast Table
M. HOOPER
3 Etiquette: What to Do and How to Do It
C. HOWARD

PART 2: Lunch
Introduction
4 Breakfast, Luncheons and Ball Suppers
J. H. LANDON
5 A Member of the Aristocracy, the Management of Servants: A Practical Guide to the Routine of Domestic Service
6 Mrs Beeton’s Cookery Book and Household Guide
I . BEETON
7 The Epicure’s Year Book for 1869

PART 3: Afternoon Tea
Introduction
8 A Member of the Aristocracy, the Management of Servants: A Practical Guide to the Routine of Domestic Service
9 Mrs Beeton’s Cookery Book and Household Guide
I . BEETON
10 Au Fait, Social Observance
11 London of Today: An Illustrated Handbook for the Season
C. E. PASCOE
12 For Afternoon Tea
13 Afternoon Tea
14 Afternoon Tea Recipes

PART 4: Dinner
Introduction
15 What Shall We Have for Dinner?
M. CLUTTERBUCK
16 Dinners and Dinner Parties or the Absurdities of Artificial Life
G. V.
17 Little Dinners: How to Serve Them with Elegance and Economy
M. HOOPER
18 Cakes and Ale: A Memory of Many Meals
E. S. MOTT
19 Food and Feeding
H. THOMPSON

PART 5: Workhouse Meals
Introduction
20 Second Annual Report of the Poor Law Commissioners, Reports of Commissioners, CMD., 1836
21 Dudley Dietary Tables
22 The Andover Union Workhouse
23 A Barrister, a Digest of the Evidence taken Cefore the Select Committee of the House of Commons on Andover Union
24 A Guide to the Construction and Management of Workhouses
E. SMITH
25 Food at Cardiff Workhouse

PART 6: Prison Diets
Introduction
26 On Sufficient and Insufficient Dietaries, with Especial Reference to the Dietaries of Prisoners
W. GUY
27 Notes on the Prison Dietaries in Scotland: Part One
J. B. THOMSON
28 Manual of Cooking and Baking for the use of Prison Officers

PART 7: Sick Cookery
Introduction
29 Cookery for Invalids, Persons of Delicate Digestion and for Children
M. HOOPER
30 The Art of Cooking for Invalids in the Home and the Hospital
F. B. JACK

PART 8: Vegetarian Meals
Introduction
31 A Plea for Vegetarianism and Other Essays
H. S . SALT
32 Practical Vegetarian Recipes
C. W. FORWARD
33 The Stages of a Vegetarian

Bibliography
Index

Biography

Dr. Ian Miller is Senior Lecturer in Medical History at Ulster University. He has authored seven books on the history of medicine and food. Of particular relevance are Ian’s book-length studies on the force-feeding of hunger strikers (2016), Irish dietary change following the devastating Famine (2013) and the surprisingly interesting history of the Victorian stomach (2011).