Did they drink water in the Regency era?
Lelah Glover
2025-05-21 17:24:21
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Although we are most likely to associate tea with Jane Austen’s day, chocolate and coffee were commonly enjoyed as well. Coffee was commonly drunk in the home with elaborate tea sets including specialized cups for tea, coffee and drinking chocolate. In Pride and Prejudice, when the gentlemen returned to the drawing room from their after dinner port, they enjoyed coffee with the ladies. During one of these interludes Elizabeth is stationed at the coffee pot to serve the beverage to guests. Coffee houses sprang up all over Europe during the 1600’s, attaining high levels of popularity, especially among male clientele. Though few coffeehouses survived this period, people still enjoyed coffee in their own drawing rooms. A number of period cookbooks from Austen’s era touched on the subject of coffee and its virtues. Eliza Rundell suggested this method to make coffee. Considering how bitter this brew was likely to be, it’s no wonder cream and sugar were deemed necessary to serve with it.
Arely Feil
2025-05-12 19:40:33
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Water was not really considered safe to drink and milk was only drank by children or invalids. Tea, coffee, hot chocolate were popular breakfast drinks. Due to the fact that the water was boiled to make these drinks, they were considered safe to drink. Tea was often offered after dinner as well. Lemonade, orangeat or barley water, were often served in the day.
Mylene Nolan
2025-05-05 03:36:09
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Refreshments at Almack's were supposed to be insipid. Orgeat syrup, made with almond extract, sugar, and orange flower water, was added as a flavoring to punch, hot chocolate, coffee, sparking water, or cocktails. A non-alcoholic orgeat lemonade would have consisted of orgeat syrup, lemonade, and soda water, and might well have been the sort of drink served at an Assembly. Ratafia, which denotes almost any alcoholic or flavored water, could be made in several ways – distilled or with an infusion of fruits and spices. Capillaire, another drink of that era, seems similar to ratafia in that it is described as any simple syrup flavored with orange flowers. Cordial waters or Liquers d’Italien had enjoyed a long reputation as wholesome, medicinal drinks, and personal recipes abounded.
Aaron Moen
2025-05-05 00:15:54
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Tea and hot chocolate were favoured as morning drinks, although the Prince Regent and many of the Dandy set were known to drink alcohol first thing. Sugar was believed to help digestion and often a drink containing a spiced, sweet ginger was also consumed to help 'close an overfull stomach'. A 'negus' was made up for guests twenty minutes before they were due to leave, it was made of calves foot jelly, wine, boiling water, lemon and spices.
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