Old Timey Food

this feels like I'm about to accidentally create one of those mayo salad recipes that @oldtimey.bsky.social sometimes posts 😂

HOE'S SAUCE Hoe's Sauce is so wholesome and delicious, that even the most delicate appetite is tempted by it.

Yorkshire Evening Argus
Aug 5, 1910

Jewell County Republican Fri, Jun 24, 1910 Bread and Butter Pudding. Cut a dozen slices of bread one-half inch thick, remove the crust and spread generously with butter. Arrange the slices in a buttered baking dish, buttered side down. Parboil one cup of raisins, shred them and sprinkle between the layers of bread, Beat three eggs slightly, add two-thirds of a cup of sugar, a speck of salt and one quart of milk. Strain and pour over the bread. Let stand one-half hour. Bake one hour in a moderate oven, covered the first half hour, then brown. Serve with a hard sauce.

Bread and Butter (and Raisin) Pudding

"Our Flags. Beat Germany. Support every flag that opposes Prussianism. Eat less of the food Fighters need, Deny yourself something. Waste Nothing." national archives between circa 1917 and circa 1919

Eat less of the food Fighters need
Deny yourself somethingWaste Nothing

A box of Vito’s cereal.

Wheat Food, now STERILIZED for your protection!

Fruit Baked Apples with Cream Broiled Oysters on Toast Malt Breakfast Food with Cream Pillsbury's Vitos with Cream Orange Marmalade Preserved Cherries Coffee Cocoa Chocolate English Breakfast and Green Tea Salt Mackerel Black Bass Broiled-Tenderloin or Sirloin Steak, Plain, or with Mushrooms Ham Lamb Chops, Plain, or with Tomato Sauce Bacon Deerfoot Farm Sausage Broiled Squab on Toast Eggs-Boiled, Fried, Poached, Shirred, Omelets Potatoes-Baked, French Fried, Saratoga Potatoes, Creamed Bread-Boston Brown, Graham, Vienna, Hot Rolls Corn and Graham Muffins Dry, Dipped or Milk Toast Griddle Cakes, Maple Syrup Tuesday, October 31, 1899 Trip of President MCKinley, his Cabinet and Guests. 31 Ocl: 1899.

You're on a trip with President McKinley on the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1899, this is your breakfast menu

WHAT NEXT? Mrs. James Ingram, of Battle Creek, Mich., has neither eaten nor drank since October, but manages to live by absorp- tion, taking baths in beef tea. Jewell County Republican Fri, Apr 15, 1881

and I bet she smells delightful

Jewell County Republican Fri, Jun 24, 1910 Raisin and Celery Salad. Cut two cupfuls of celery, fine. Seed and halve two-thirds of a cup of large raisins, add one cupful of grated ap- ple, two oranges, cut fine, and one- fourth of a cupful of mayonnaise.

Raisin and celery salad

AT BREAKFAST we have no time to spare, for the du- tles of the day are clamoring for attention; at the noon- day dining hour some of the family are absent; but at six o'clock in the evening we all come to the tea table for chit- chat, and the recital of adventures. We take our friends in with us, the more friends, the merrier." -T. DeWitt Tal- mage. Jewell County Republican Fri, Jun 24, 1910

"At six o'clock in the evening we all come to the tea table for chit-chat, and the recital of adventures. We take our friends in with us, the more friends, the merrier."

advertisement for cascade pure whisky. Bottle of whisky pictured on side, a large black feline prowls a mountaintop, with a full moon over a waterfall in the background. Mellow as Moonlight. Text: SMOOTH as the tread of a forest creature - rich with the life and vigor of the finest grain-—pure by thorough purifica- tion — mellow as moonlight —Cascade. Original Bottling Has Old Gold Label GEO. A. DICKEL & Co. Distillers Nashville, Tenn.

Mellow as Moonlight

Life Magazine
1916
Internet Archive

Charlotte up writing "Buy Our Delicious Pig"

advertisement with pig bearing the words: no cholera here. Text below: The Medal of "Superiority." Comes to Strawberry Hill Pork from the American Institute. The highest award also from N. Y. State Food Exhibit. Cleanliness and purity as well as taste is the basis. One dollar per lb. is offered for any animal product of the market that surpasses in cleanliness the Strawberry Hill Pig. Price 100 per and Bacon to STRAWBERRY HILL, Florence, Mass.

My NO CHOLERA HERE pig is raising a lot of questions, etc

1890
Internet Archive

advertisement for kellogg's shredded krumbles. Pictured: a young woman holding a basketball, about to pass it. Two other young women and a basketball hoop in background. A box of kellogg's shredded crumbles is below her, with cereal in a bowl. Text: Krumbles is the real energy food NATURE carefully puts into the whole wheat grain the elements that lend pep vim, vigor to the body. Our method brings outthenaturalsweetnessand tempting flavor. That is why Krumbles means so much to those who eat it. All the energy of all the wheat is in Krumbles-the valuable min- eral salts that are hidden away in the bran as well as the rest of the grain, the elements that go toward making muscles and bone and rebuilding weary nerve cells. Krumbles is made in the same, big, modern kitchens with Kellogg's Toasted Corn Flakes, Kellogg's Krumbled Bran, Kellogg Drinket, etc, and each package is guaran teed by this signature— H:. Helloos,

All wheat, ready to eat

Delineator magazine
1920
Internet Archive

A young woman sits against a shining silver tank, pouring from a thermos into a cup. an open lunch pail is next to her.

Girl getting some sun and lunch at Douglas Aircraft Company

Alfred T. Palmer
Long Beach, CA
1942

I would absolutely do that

"Careful not to cross the librarians, lest you end up swimming with the microfiches"

I think "microfiche" is just so much more fun to say

(I realize now that I've been conflating the terms my whole life)

Women and children having a meal on a table next to cross-shaped gravestone, in a cemetery.

"Lunching with the dead, Petrograd"

Keystone View Company
c1919
Library of Congress

b&w photograph showing a man at a lunch counter serving another man with his back to the viewer. The sign behind the stand reads Frankfurter, Hamburger 15c, Pizza. A storage area next to the sign holds just a shit ton of cigarettes. At the right, a man with a stubby cigarette walks past while glancing by.

Lunchtime

Angelo Rizzuto
August 1953

Located next to a county airport, the William Penn Diner at Hares Corner near New Castle, DE just couldn’t resist becoming an attraction from 1931-51.

b&w photo of a shack witg the sign TWO GIRLS WAFFLE HOUSE. Two women stand in the doorway wearing dresses with long aprons

I wonder if there are a lot of fights there

Anchorage, Alaska
between ca 1900 - 1916
Library of Congress

A diner with a plane sticking out of the roof

Welcome to our diner, we made it look like a plane crashed into it because reasons

Arthur Rothstein
1939
Library of Congress

"little tufts of shrimps"

What are you TALKING about

Frog Salad.-This is a delicious salad. Soak two dozen frogs' legs in salt water for one hour; drain; stew them slowly until quite tender; take them out of the boiling water and cover them with milk. Let this come to a boil; drain and cool; remove the bones. Cut up celery enough to half fill a salad-bowl; add the frogs which should nearly fill the bowl. Arrange neatly; cover with mayonnaise; garnish with lobster- claws, little tufts of shrimps, and green herbs, alternated with hard-boiled eggs quartered lengthwise.

🐸🥗

The Murrey Collection of Cookbooks
1895

Tomato Salad.-A perfect tomato salad is prepared as follows: Take three fine ripe August tomatoes and scald them a mo- ment; skin, and set on ice to cool; slice ; put them into a salad-bowl; add a teaspoon- ful of chopped tarragon and a plain salad dressing. Sliced tomatoes with mayonnaise are not to be despised.

"Sliced tomatoes with mayonnaise are not to be despised" 👈 putting this on my tombstone

The Murrey Collection of Cookbooks
1895

HERRING SALAD 3 cups cold boiled potatoes ¼ cup pickled onion ½ cup smoked herring ½ cup French Dressing Dice potatoes, cut herring in small pieces, and add pickled onions eut in halves. Marinate in French dressing and let stand for an hour. Serve on hearts of lettuce. Servings, 6.

An unadvertised side benefit of eating this: your breath will stun a moose, should the need arise

Modern Priscilla Cookbook
1924

June 29 *Beef Croquettes, Brown Sauce Mashed Potatoes Beets Fruit Salad Cheese Crackers Coffee *Beef Croquettes—Melt 2 tablespoons Crisco, stir in 1 tablespoon flour, gradually add 1/2 pint milk, stir till it boils 4 minutes, add salt and pepper to taste; 1/2 pound cold cooked chopped beef and 4 tablespoons breadcrumbs. Turn out on plate to cool. Divide into 8 pieces, flour them and make into neat croquettes. Egg and breadcrumb them. Fry till brown in hot Crisco. Drain and serve hot with brown sauce.

For brown sauce. Melt 3 tablespoonfuls Crisco, add 1 chopped onion, piece of carrot, 2 mushrooms, and fry a good brown color; stir in 2 table- spoonfuls flour and fry it also; then add 1 cupful stock or water and few drops of kitchen bouquet. Let all cook ten minutes, stirring constantly add seasoning of salt and pepper, and strain for use.

Today's menu brought to you by Crisco

A Calendar of Dinners, with 615 Recipes (a Crisco Cookbook)
Marion Harris Neil
1915
Library of Congress
www.loc.gov/resource/gdc...

I had questions about that too...

LUNCH BASKET, II Pork Sandwiches. Watercress-Onion Sandwiches. Temperance Punch. Afternoon Tea Sandwich or Sweet. Fruit in Season. Stuffed Dates. PORK SANDWICHES Slice cold roast pork very thin. Spread a thin piece of bread with apple-sauce, put sliced stuffed olives on top of pork and lay on apple-sauce, pork side down. Cover with another piece of bread, cut thin and buttered lightly. These should be done up in paraffin paper. WATER-CRESS and ONION SANDWICHES Chop water-cress and new onions, lay between lettuce leaves after being dipped in vinegar, then lay between two pieces of thin buttered bread. TEMPERANCE PUNCH {See receipt among Beverages^) AFTERNOON TEA SANDWICHES Between two macaroons put cream cheese, previously beaten up with a little cream and sprinkled with currants

TEMPERANCE PUNCH Two quarts Ginger Ale. Three pounds Cut Sugar. Twelve Lemons. Mix lemon-juice with sugar and stand on ice in Mason jar for two hours before using. Pour ginger all over syrup and serve.

cover of cookbook, striking red background with black trees on a sloping hill. The Comet 1910

Menu for a lunch basket

The Comet 1910 Receipts: Dedicated to the National League by the Massachusetts Association of Women Workers
Library of Congress

Handwritten recipe notes are in parentheses HARVARD BEETS ¼ cup cornstarch (3/4) 1 cup beet juice (1/3) 2/3 cup sugar (2 tablespoons too sweet) (1 tablespoon) 1/4 cup butter (1/2) 1 teaspoon salt 4 cups cooked or canned (1/6) ⅓ cup vinegar beets Use cubed canned beets or fresh beets. If raw beets are used, pare, cube and cook in covered utensil with ½ cup of water over simmer burner until tender. Drain water from beets and use for the sauce. Mix the cornstarch, sugar, and salt with the vinegar. Add remaining liquid which has been heated to boiling. Cook over low flame until thick and clear. Add butter and stir until melted. Pour over beets which have been heated and drained. Amount — 8 servings.

Surprisingly rare to find notes and commentary in the vintage cookbooks I look at

The way to a man's heart: your gas range cookbook
1949

June 28 Cream of Lettuce Soup Bread Sticks* Halibut Ramekins Baked Potatoes Asparagus Ginger Ice Cream Lady Fingers Coffee * Halibut Ramekins—Flake ratherfinely \}4 pounds cooked halibut. Seethat it is free from bones and skin.Have ready 1 pint seasoned whitesauce. Crisco few fireproof dishes.

Mix halibut with sauce, season with salt and pepper, then fill dishes with it, smooth over surface with wetted knife, and cover with thin layer white sauce. Sprinkle top with mixture of breadcrumbs and grated cheese, and place a few tiny bits Crisco here and there on surface. Bake in fairly hot oven 25 minutes, so as to get it thoroughly heated and sur- face browned. Dish up and serve hot.

*Cream of Lettuce Soup—3 cups white stock, 2 heads lettuce, 2 tablespoons cooked rice, 1/2 cup cream, 1/4 table- spoon onion, finely chopped, 1 table- spoon Crisco, yolk 1 egg, nutmeg,

salt and pepper to taste. Remove outer leaves from lettuce and shred it. Cook onion 5 minutes in Crisco, add lettuce, rice, and stock. Add cream, yolk egg slightly beaten, nut-meg, salt, and pepper to taste.

Menu for June 28

A calendar of dinners, with 615 recipes
Marion Harris Neil
1915
Library of Congress
www.loc.gov/resource/gdc...