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Queen Victoria’s 200th Birthday Menu

For your dining pleasure- We are proud to share our menu for Queen Victoria’s 200th Birthday Tea!

Please join us on Saturday, May 25, 2019 at 2:00pm CST as we will be turning back the clocks to Victorian Era England! Join us for a fun afternoon of light refreshment, music, merriment, and of course TEA! in the historic Victorian era town of South Pittsburg, Tennessee. Event to benefit 2 selected children’s charities.

Food historians note Queen Victoria had a well versed palette and a distinct love for both the sweet and the savory. Mutton, potatoes, and Beef were most commonly seen on her menus as well as a variety of fish and an assortment of breads. Her favorite sweets consisted of sponges, wafers, biscuits (or shortbread cookies), drop cakes, Scottish tablet (a dulche de leche-type fudge), petit fours, pralines, almond sweets, pies, and berry tars (specifically cranberry) with creme. But perhaps my favorite of hers are the Langues de Chat (or Cat Tongues) which is an elongated shortbread dipped in chocolate.

I imagine the royal kitchen was a very busy place! And the royal garden diverse! The Queen advocated for fresh foods and discouraged ingredients out of season. The exception was pineapple- for which the Queen had a passion- and was thus grown year round in the Royal hothouses.

More fun facts and information about Queen Victoria can be found on on our blog. More about our event can be found here.


About Susan

Hi! My name is Susan and I am a historian, seamstress, teacher, mother, and wife. My passion for history has manifested itself in the art of recreating clothing from different periods of time. Growing up in the American South, I am heavily schooled in the art of recreating clothing from the 19th century. After nearly a decade of immersing myself primarily in the Victorian period, I found the need to branch out and explore other periods of time. However, it is my connection with the American South and the clothing of rural America that continues to be the driving force behind my designs.