Other Meals

Breakfast was served as a buffet, with hot food kept warm on plates filled with hot water or over spirit burners. There would have been a selection of hot dishes including porridge, devilled kidneys, bacon, eggs, sausages and hashes of game; cold dishes including potted meat, cold roast meat and smoked fish; fruit, both fresh and preserved; breads and fancy buns with jams, preserves and butter; and finally a choice of tea, coffee or chocolate with milk, cream and sugar. Some ladies preferred to have breakfast in bed, especially if they had had a late night.