Possibly small portions but bear in mind rich Victorians and Edwardians ate prodigious quantities of food. A few years back the BBC did a series “The Supersizers Go/Eat …” where Giles Coren and Sue Perkins attempted to eat like Edwardians, Victorians, Romans, etc for a week. The first of the programmes was Edwardian Supersize Me and the amount of food was extraordinary - the presenters felt awful after only a few days