New England Boiled Dinner
Tomato Jelly Salad
Bread and Butter Folds
*Newport Pudding
In 1914 December 10 was a Thursday.
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Fried Soft Shell Crabs, Sauce Tartare
Dinner Bread
*Planked Club Steak
Duchess Potatoes
Fried Tomatoes
Chocolate Bread Pudding, Cream Sauce
Café Noir
In 1914 December 9 was a Wednesday.
This menu is very similar to Family Dinners Menu No. XIII in What to Have for Dinner. That menu adds an asparagus salad, specifies Fried Tomatoes au Parmesan, and serves cold bread pudding.
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Potato Soup
Salmon Timbales, Rice Border
*Hollandaise Sauce
Creamed Peas
Chutney Salad
Cassava Bread
Dates Stuffed with Cream Cheese
Assorted Nuts
Café Noir
In 1914 November 20 was a Friday. And once again, fish.
Today is Scratch’s birthday! Since he was the one who started this whole project, we should definitely celebrate!
However, this is not the menu I would choose for him at all. There’s no real dessert! And several of the recipes are complete mysteries. I found a recipe for Chutney Salad Dressing, but not salad. There’s one for Mock Cassava Bread (made with white bread), but not the actual bread. Maybe we have the celebratory dinner in a couple of days…
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*Lobster Cocktail
Clear Mushroom Soup
Pulled Bread
Celery
Moulded Fish, Normandy Sauce
Dressed Cucumbers
Sweetbreads à la Root
Gumbo Squabs
Currant Jelly
Oak Hill Sweet Potatoes
Moulded Spinach on Artichoke Bottoms
Grape Fruit Jelly Salad
Svea Wafers
Parfait Armour
Nut Meringues
Café Noir
In 1914 November 11 was a Wednesday.
Oak Hill Sweet Potatoes are presumably Oak Hill Potatoes, made with sweet potatoes.
I believe Parfait Armour is a typo for Parfait Amour and that’s the recipe I’ve used.
Svea Wafers were some kind of commercial cracker, I think. I’m still looking for information.
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Canapés à la Rector
Consommé Julienne
Pulled Bread
Olives
Salted Almonds
Halibut au Lit
Dressed Cucumbers
*Shapleigh Timbales
Saddle of Mutton
Fried Potato Balls
French Peas
Lakewood Salad
Mosaic Sandwiches
Cadillac Coupe
Rolled Nut Wafers
Bonbons
Wheat Crisps
Roquefort Cheese
Café Noir
In 1914 October 14 was a Wednesday.
I’m guessing Consommé Julienne is Julienne Soup with consommé instead of stock.
Rector’s was a restaurant on Broadway in Manhattan, very famous in the nineteen-teens. Presumably they made canapés like this.
Despite how fancy French Peas sounds, it’s just canned peas reheated in butter. Unless they meant Peas à la Francaise.
The recipe for Cadillac Coupe vexes me. I can’t find it anywhere and it’s not obvious what it is, other than a dessert served in a coupe glass. Searching for “cadillac coupe” on-line is not helpful
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Vegetable Soup
Toasted Triangles
Egg Salad, Cream Dressing
*Quick Nut Bread
Caramel Custard, Caramel Sauce
Fruit Punch
In 1914 July 13 was a Monday. A meatless meal for Monday.
I am amused that Egg Salad I uses Oil Dressing II and Egg Salad II uses Oil Dressing I.
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Creamed Salt Codfish
Baked Potatoes
*Quaker Oats Bread
Beet and Nut Salad
Water Thins
Tapioca Cream
In 1914 June 10 was a Wednesday
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Consommé Tillyprone
Bread Sticks
Fricasseed Chicken
Potato Croquettes
French String Beans
*Pistachio Ice Cream with Peaches
Toasted Crackers
Camembert
Café Noir
In 1914 May 3 was a Sunday.
Tillypronie (note spelling difference) is a Victorian house in Scotland where Charlotte, Lady Clark of Tillypronie collected recipes and assembled them into a cookbook, published posthumously in 1909. The cookbook does mention serving Brussels sprouts in soup, but doesn’t have a recipe with the same name.
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Chicken Gumbo
Fried Scallops, Sauce Tartare
Julienne Potatoes
French Bread
*Moulded Cheese with Bar-le-duc Strawberries
Butter Thins
Café Noir
In 1914 March 20 was a Friday. Once again, we have fish. Although there’s also chicken in the soup.
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*Crab Meat Timbales
Boiled Ham
Mashed Potatoes
Dinner Rolls
Snow Pudding, Custard Sauce
Assorted Nuts
In 1914 February 24 was a Tuesday. It’s also Shrove Tuesday (aka Mardi Gras aka the last day before Lent), but I don’t see that reflected in the menu.
Timbales are deep-fried pastry shells made by dipping a heated form (a timbale iron) in batter and then in hot fat. The resultant timbale cases are filled, in this case with creamed crab and mushrooms. One can still get timbale (and rosette) irons from Nordic Ware*. (And perhaps some day I shall…)
*I have no affiliation with Nordic Ware other than being a satisfied user of their bakeware.
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365 Kitchen Cabinet 