Victorian Food Update for Donna

[blytheoliver]

Tea sandwiches and 1,000 pastries it is. Apparantly Victorians only ate pastries or Christmas dinners that take a week of effort, or something easy, like a hog's head or turtle soup. According to the internet I some suet, a cleaver, a roaring fire, holly for decor and a gold coin thrown into everything for superstitious good luck. So fucking

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[sigrdrifa]

Honey, you should see some of the recipes in my Victorian cookbook.

Fucking disgusting.

[blytheoliver]

Well, apparantly I also have to have 10 kids (baptized, of course!) real quick and then get them to help me with stuff like boiling the overnight drained pudding in beef stock. I'll get right on that.

[blytheoliver]

Yes! I got a bunch of recipes for other little sandwiches too, like olive ones. I could make a super fancy roast, and some other "decadent" fancy food, just not sure if it would be 100% authentically Victorian. We can always decorate it. Yes, a doily, and some powdered sugar, on a London Broil.

[blytheoliver]

Oh this is going to be epic. I'm planning on flying in Thursday night so I have time to do prep work before Saturday.