Victorian cooking and kitchens

Victorian cooking

In the Victorian Era, like today, ladies magazines were popular, and like today, readers sent in their favorite recipies.   

Godey's Lady's Book, the most popular woman's magazine in the nineeenth century, was published in America in some form for sixty eight years, from 1830 to 1898.  

In the Victorian era, most foods were kept by smoking, pickling, or kept in cool basements or suspended in the well. 

It was not unusual in rural houses to see the rafters hung with legs of beef, mutton, and hams.  The meats were hung inside the chimneys to perserve them by smoking.