What did Victorians eat for Christmas dinner?

Answer 1

The usual Victorian Christmas dinner for all but the upper classes was turkey, as it is today.

The landed gentry and aristocracy usually had game birds such as pheasant, grouse or partridge. They were accompanied by carrots and potatoes as today, but Brussels sprouts had yet to become popular in the English-speaking world so instead of these, they had cabbage, baked onions and celeriac. There was sometimes a starter of soup, often vichysoisse which is a French potato & leek soup eaten cold, and dessert was Christmas pudding, as today.

After dinner, when the men were smoking, cheese and port wine were offered around with savoury biscuits.

Answer 2

At Christmas the Victorians would eat vegetables that were in season. Onions, carrots, turnips, cabbage, broccoli and artichokes would have all been available for their Christmas dinner.