Showing posts with label Edwardian Christmas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Edwardian Christmas. Show all posts

Monday, 23 January 2012

Montagu Knight's Edwardian Christmas

The star of the exhibits on display for the Edwardian Christmas was a hand written and illustrated menu for Christmas Dinner 1911sent from Sokoto, (Nigeria) listing all the fare of a traditional Christmas dinner:

Soup
Fish Mayonnaise
Stewed Pigeons on Toast
Tomatoe Farcies
Roast Turkey
Saddle of Mutton
Rum Pudding
Fruit Salade
Foie Gras
Coffee & Dessert

We matched it against one in a contemporary cookbook; a game ledger with an entry for the day after Boxing Day 1911; photographs of beaters ready for a shoot; instructions for handmade gifts; an illustrated colour-printed book of entertainments for the family; and a book of eighteenth-century prints that belonged to the Edwardian owners, Montagu and Florence Knight. The book of prints was displayed open at a page with a snowy scene and appropriately drew together two of the most significant periods of the House's history.