Curried Eggs

By the 1880s the grand country-house breakfast was in its heyday. Houses such as Audley End were not occupied all year round, as titled aristocrats needed to be in London when Parliament was sitting (they automatically sat in the House of Lords), and they often had several country seats. However, being in the country for the shooting season was almost obligatory. Participants – men and women – would leave the house after breakfast, sometimes not eating again until the light faded, which in