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An extensive library of Victorian holiday entertaining, gift giving and decorating articles from over 100 years ago. Find plum pudding recipes, Victorian Christmas crafts, the history of the Christmas tree and Christmas cards. This is a great place to show today's children how Christmas used to be.

 
A Victorian Christmas
 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 
 

 

   Victorian Christmas Entertaining & Recipes

Articles, recipes, and menus for creating the perfect Victorian Christmas.


Victorian Christmas Ornaments: Print the design ... gather up the supplies ... create some Christmas magic!

  
Christmas Day Desserts, Authentic Victorian Recipes  
Create an authentic display of Victorian Christmas desserts to dazzle your holiday guests. 

Christmas With Dickens
Charles Dickens daughters tells of spending Christmas and New Years with her father.

Christmas with Irving, Thackeray, and Dickens
A glimpse of nineteenth century holiday traditions and celebrations seen through the writings of three of the Victorian era's most famous authors.

Table Decorations for Holiday Entertaining 
Entertain your guests with a truly old fashioned holiday table setting and menu, including:
 
- Christmas Eve Midnight Supper
- Christmas Breakfast for Adults
- Christmas Luncheon
- Christmas Afternoon Tea
- Christmas Dinner

Menu for a Christmas Dinner, Victorian Holiday Dinner  
Prepare an authentic Victorian Christmas dinner from oysters to pate, from turkey to quail, with punch, fancy cakes and coffee.

 

Plum Pudding Recipes, from 1860  
A variety of plum pudding recipes from a Civil War era magazine.

Eggnog Recipes
Stir up an old-fashioned eggnog recipe for your holiday guests. 

18th Century Holiday Traditions
Residents of 18th Century Williamsburg Observed Feast of the Nativity as a Holy Day

Gettysburg Kicks-Off the Yuletide Season!
Take a trip back in time to the festive Gettysburg Area and kick-off the Yuletide Season!

A Twelfth Night Gala, by Catherine Taylor  
The annual Twelfthnight gala of the North Star Chapter, Victorian Society in America, lets closet Victorians come out in style with period food, manners, fashion, music and dancing.

Victorian Holiday Window Displays
The beginning of an annual tradition begins in the 1870s at Macy's

19th C. Cake Recipes from Godey's Lady's Book  
A collection of Victorian cake recipes from an 1860s Godey's Lady's Book.

19th C. Recipes with Alcohol 
Cooking with Wine, Beer and other "Alcohol" in the 19th Century

Christmas Parties for Children 
Create a Victorian holiday table especially for children:

- Christmas Breakfast for Children 
- Christmas Goose 
- Christmas Snowball Dinner

Victorian Christmas Carol
Here is an 1881 version of Silent Night. 

Christmas In The City and The Country- Rival Claims, 1860
An 1860s Christmas story from Godey's Lady's Book.

 

              

Have a Victorian Christmas with a handmade porcelain ornament.


 

 

Beautiful tile keepsake boxes make wonderful gifts.

 

 

 

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