Though today’s video depicts 18th century methods, little changed about making plum pudding during the Regency Era. 18th Century Cooking with Jas Townsend and Son: Plum Pudding Read more about plum pudding here. Read about the Bennet family’s Stir it Up Sunday here. Read more about syllabub and other holiday foods here. If you enjoyed this post you might also enjoy:
Continue reading →Continuing on the theme of Regency Era Christmas traditions, the quintessential Christmas food, the plum pudding!
Continue reading →by Julie Buck As we look at schools in Jane Austen’s time, and the role of needlework within that schooling, I think it’s important that you understand two things. First of all, you need to know what a sampler is. And secondly, you need to see how girls’ schooling developed from earlier centuries to arrive at what Jane Austen found when she was sent off to boarding school. A sampler is an example or sample … Continue reading →
Regency Life Major Topics (scroll down for full index) Amusements Children Christmas Colorful language Food and drink Gentlemen Housekeeping Ladies Medicine Transportation Full Regency Life Index Accomplishments Addiction Amusements Annulment Army Babies Bachelors Balls Barouche Barrister Bathing Beauty Betrothal Books Boxing Day Breech of promise Budget Calling cards Caroling Carriage Chaise Chaperones Charity Children Chocolate Christmas dinner Christmas eve Christmas Traditions Christmas Day Cleaning Clergy Clergyman’s duties Clothing and accessories Coach Coffee Colorful … Continue reading →
In addition to the country dance, reel, cotillion and quadrille, several other dances might be found at a Regency ball or assembly. The minuet was a hold over from the prior century and required special dress and training. Old fashioned, formal balls would open with couples doing the minute, one at a time. This practice fell out of fashion in the early 1800’s. Napoleonic Ball – Menuet During the 1700’s, English country dances spread … Continue reading →
