During the Victorian era, meeting friends and family for a picnic in the great outdoors really took off in popularity. The well-known cooking book of the time, Mrs. Beeton’s Book of Household Management, gave detailed instructions on how to pack the perfect picnic! For 40 people, Mrs. Beeton insisted on, cold roast beef, four meat pies, four roast chickens, two roast ducks, four dozen cheesecakes and one large cold plum pudding!
We love to think of the Quartet, who lived at Baddesley during the Victorian era, packing up a picnic and heading out in the sunshine to enjoy a picnic in the gardens.