Eggs with Cheese

Eggs were popular not just for breakfast, but also for luncheon. Lunch was a relative newcomer, having made its appearance under a variety of names at the end of the 18th century. Until then, people ate breakfast, dinner and then supper in the late evening. However, since the Tudor era, dinner had been moving backwards in the day, from about 11am in the 1550s, to 2pm in 1700, to 5pm or 6pm by the 1780s. For the fashionable, it moved to 8pm in the early 19th century, and both luncheon and af