1/12^th Scale Victorian Kitchen Food

Circa 1837 - 1900

When the 19th Century dawned only the very poorest were still cooking over open fires, although these did have a grate and a hob. After Victoria came to the throne, the terraces of small houses being built for the influx of workers from the country into the factories all had a small black cast-iron kitchen range as standard, country house kitchens just having larger ranges and more of them. These large country kitchens still used vast quantities of copper pans and utensils, still to be seen in many a National Trust house kitchen, but mass produced cast iron pots were being used by the working classes for cooking, kitchenware being white glazed crockery and stoneware, tin mugs and plates for the workers and the lower working classes, cheap decorated pottery tea cups and plates for others.