Brown Bread Ice Cream
One of the most common weird dishes on this list might be this one. In the Victorian era, less expensive ingredients were not used to make ice cream. In reality, most people preferred plain vanilla ice cream, but if they fancied something a little more special, they would choose brown bread ice cream.
Brown Bread Ice Cream
They would toast some bread crumbs and spread them on top of vanilla ice cream. To us, that sounds fairly nice.
Poisonous Purple Pears
We advise against trying to recreate this dish because it was poisonous. Really! Pears were served as a dessert in a rather lovely manner during the Victorian era, but it required a small amount of a bad chemical reaction.
Poisonous Purple Pears
Cooking the pears would take place in a pan with a pewter top. The pears would become purple as a result of the pewter and pear acid reacting.