Many of America’s food traditions also come from the Victorian era. Roast beef and roast goose where among the most popular for dinner, although the less fortunate had rabbit. On Christmas Day ...

From the bauble-bedecked tree, to the crackers, the presents and roast dinner ... earning as little as £100 a year in the mid-Victorian era, beef and turkey were far beyond even a special ...

IT is a world Oliver Twist would have felt at home in - a workhouse so dreaded by the poor of Victorian England ... it was varied, with roast beef, ham, potatoes, jam and roly-poly pudding ...