Lifting the Lid on Workhouse Food at Vestry House Museum

This event has finished Took place on: Saturday, 10th Sep 2016

£8

A talk by Peter Higginbotham, author of The Workhouse Cookbook.

According to Charles Dickens, workhouse inmates were fed on "three meals of thin gruel a day, with an onion twice a week, and half a roll of Sundays."

Was he telling it like it was, or spinning us a yarn? The truth may surprise you!

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2016-09-10 2016-09-10 Europe/London Lifting the Lid on Workhouse Food A talk by Peter Higginbotham, author of The Workhouse Cookbook. https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/calendar/2016/09/10/lifting-the-lid-on-workhouse-food-110160 Vestry House Museum,Vestry Road, Walthamstow, London,,London