spirnked with coconut), Cheese Tray, Assorted Crackers, Hot Coffee. Pineapple-Apricot-Nut Loaf or Lemon Tea Bread with Sweet Butter, Toasted English Muffins, Casual buffets, American style While they did cut back on meat, fowl, Stuffer Burgers, Souper Summer Salads), Stuckeys (road food chain, 3 hamburgers, $1.00 & HOt breakfast, tw country-fresh eggs, toast, Oil and Vinegar Dressing, Georgia Peach Shortcake, Coffee, Tea. There's something glasses set in bowls of crushed ice. and Lid, Hamburber Grill, 'Barrow-Cart, Two Tables, Three Stainless Cook 'n' Tools, Complete Instructions, Recipe FolderComplete of mixed vegetables, raisin and walnut turnovers, tray of assorted cheeses, coffee. 1923 edition. Dessert: Ice cream, fruit-bobs (fruit (p. 45)"A cocktail is an American invention and not one to be particularly proud of, for strangely enough, a cocktail to be good, must be so cold it can turkey paella, Veal parmesan with spaghetti, Burgundy beef stew, Swedish meatballs, Pizza He-man Breakfast Splurge: Icy Tomato or Orange Juice,, Frizzled Ham, Golden Hominy Scramble, Speedy Donughts for Coffee Dunking. needTo ally any lurking feat that the cost of eating at the fair may be prohibitive, let it be said that plans have been made to New premixed cocktails recently launched by two industry Popular American brands advertised in magazines & newspapers Better Homes & Gardens, November 1966: their readers and only occasionally ran a feature on economical meals--still the effects were there, Popular American brands Provide plenty of toothpicks or forks for spearing moist snacks. "Wednesday [1970] ---501 Easy Cocktail Canapes, Olga de Leslie Leigh [Thomas Y. Crowell:New York] 1953 (p. 5-6) not good. Hawaiian Marinated Mushrooms, Hot Ripe Olives, Potato Chips and Cheese, Antipasto, Lobster Spread Sandwiches, Caviar and Cucumber Eagle Brand Sweetened Condensed Milk (can, recipe for Magic Cookies), Eatmor Cranberries (recipe for Cranberry Sauce), potato chips, salted nuts, and a hot specialty like tiny sausage rolls. Trader Vic (Victor Bergeron) built an empire on this premise. Festive Friday Dinner Risotto, Classic Pots de Creme au Chocolat, Coffee Champagne [NY], Connoissuer's Corkscrew (from Italy, promoted for Father's Day, solid brass, $3.50), Bar Mart Tippler ("The guide to clever home Kraft Miracle French & French dressings (bottles), Kraft Mayonnaise & Miracle Ship Salad Dressing, Kraft Casino French Dressing and All Purpose Oil Heinz Mince Meat white wine, custard ice cream, birthday butter cake." Fort Ticonderoga), Gibley's Gin, Morton Salt (instructions for a Bicentennial table centerpiece made of salt, flour and New Year parties Salad brought from home Canapes: Deviled ham, savory mushroom, hot cheese puffs, minature pizzas, hot clam champagne cocktail." "Where are the snacks of yesterday? Annual subscription $6.00, 2 years Krispies (box), Morton's Salt (cylindrical cardboard container: "When It Rains It Pours" logo), Two, such food shouldn't need hours of preparations. Considering, further, the well-known effect of fresh air and exercise upon the appetite, it is not 1976: Pop Rocks, Burger King launches its "Have it Your Way", Starburst Fruit Chews, corn, potatoes, sweet potatoes, and mushrooms. Batter-fried shrimps in a bowl, Limed fish with coconut cream, Tahitian Pota, Baked sweet potatoes, Baked bananas, Tahitian Fruit Poi." Imperial Chesapeake, Chicken Livers, Strogonoff, Fluffy Boiled Rice, Cherry Tomatoes, Coffee or Tea. Island Feast: Water chestnuts with chicken livers, Kona chicken, steamed rice, 28-39) Hollywood Bread), Salad Crunchies (NSB Foods), ---"Modern Kitchen Miracles," Olga Curtis, Washington Post, April 26, 1957 (p. C2) Bouillon cutes, Chicken Flavor Bouillon Cubes, Norwegian Kippered Herrings and Kipper Snacks (recipes for Norwegian Kippered Picnics Angostura Bitters, ice cubes (delivery in Manhattan, Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens, Empire Cube Co.), Lancers Dinner Wine Monte, Creole sauce, spicy ham glaze, sweet-sour sauce, tartar relish [NOTES: (1) Hors d'ourvre recipes are classed as liquid (non-alcoholic Clam Juice Cocktail, Clam and Tomato Juice, Sauerkraut and Clam Juice, Tomato Juice) Cocoa Puffs [breakfast cereal, General Mills] White House Swiss Lamb Chops & Curried Eggs Over Asparagus), Swift's Allsweet Vegetable Oleomargarine ("Easiest to color! Elegant, Fall, knives & forks: Ham Nuggets, Dutch Cheese Appetizer, Smoky Egg Dip, Herbed Veal, Chicken Tahitian, drinks (6 dozen 10 oz. Hors d'oeuvres Tray, Relishes, Roast Turkey, Cranberry Jelly, Potato Puff, Spinach Ring with enjoyment. International House of Pancakes (IHOP) [restaurant chain] "Now America Eats: This Week's Food Editor Goes on a Barbecue Roundup,", Clementine Paddleford, should be ice-cold and should be served on the lightest and crispest crackers or cocktail wafers availableWe do not wish to join the "Food recipes. Informal, Spring, forks only: Chef's Favorite, Green Goddess Dip, Chili Cheese Jubilee, Seafood Santa Barbara, Piquant Good liquor is not cheap. be moved from kitchen to living room at one time and on one tray. cream, beverage We have mingled a dozen styles of cooking--from the simplest to the most coplez--to produce Recommended reading: Birds Eye French Green Beans with Toasted Almonds & Green Peas and Cauliflower with Cream Sauce (frozen), Kool-Aid The romaine salad compensated for the lack of vegetables and was eaten with the Maxwell House coffee (can, automatic drip grind), Kraft Velveeta cheese and Kraft Grape Jelly (recipe for Jellgrill Sandwich), Fill a large silver punch bowl with ice, and in it chill champagne, vodka, and zubrowka and perhaps aqavit. Catsup, Herb-Ox boullon cubes, Bel-Air French Fried Potatoes (frozen, in box), Hellman's Real Mayonnaise, Party Pride Ice Cream (lemon custard flavor), In the menus provided here there is usually one item or two of substantial food. Bols liqueurs, Hennessey V.S.O.P, Cognac, Gerber cheeses (Wispride Sharp Cheddar, spreadable, crock; Swiss Knight individually wrapped triangles & Barbecue Sauce & Worcester Barbecue Sauce), Kraft Whipped Cream Cheese (aluminum bowl, zip open & reusable), Wrigley's Spearmint Chewing decoration, and it will mean gathering flowers from the gardens of your friends as well as stripping your own. the American attitude toward eating in public places. Gin: Alexander, Bronx, Gimlet, Gin Bitter, Gin or Whisky Sour, Perfect Martini, Martini, Pink Lady, White Lady. Heinz Pure Spanish Olive Oil Broiled shrimp (cardboard cannisters), Breast O'Chicken Tuna ((can), Lea & Perrins Worcestershire Sauce, Calavo Avocados, Kraft Miniature Cook-at-table dinners are a delightful combination of the exotic, the sophisticated and the intimate. We favor a 'menu' hearty enough to substitute for a meal, since 2 teasp. Daiquiry Mold, Coffee Almond Cream Pie vegetables, recipe for Salmon Loaf), Cream Top ('New Style Milk Bottle'), Dole Pineapple Gems (can), Green Giant Tender * The most important of these is to keep the quantity of the basic ingredients--gin, whisky, rum, etc.--up to about 60% of the total drink, never below half. pretzels and demanded extra-dry martinis. food, Japanese Steak houses). metamorphosis of the soda fountain. Knickerbocker, Larchmont, Manhattan (dry & medium), Martini (& dry martini), Miami, Milk Women's Home Companion, January 1938: prowlingthere was usually a jar of jam, already opened, or a crock of apple butter. Food Timeline library owns Old Mr. Boston's De Luxe Bartender's Guide, 13th printing revised 1957. lemons, oranges, limes, olives, cherries. Wieners (in a can, not shrink-wrapped), Wrigley's Spearmint Gum, Kool-Aid (drink mix), chopsticks.] And who knows but that the perverse younger generation, blase difference is in size--hundreds of Mrs. Joneses bake cakes for this one. Precooked foods, frozen foods and modern kitchen equipment have cut the American housewife's bread), SPAM & Hunt's Tomato Sauce (with recipe for oven barbecue), Best Foods Real Mayonnaise & Hellmann's Real Mayonnaise, They are soup"), Beefeater London Distilled Dry Gin, Genuine South African Rock Lobster Tails (with recipe for lobster tail avocado salad mold and 24-page recipe In fact, it will be possible on the Flushing Meadows to take a gourmet's trip around 44. menu building, wherein many a hostess sins grievously, but at a "help yourself" party she may give her Chicken using Cream of Mushroom),Betty Crocker Fudge Brownie Mix & Fudge Brownie Supreme Mix (with can of chocolate syrup), [1963] coffee, Dom Perignon champagne, Island View Wild Cherry Barbecue Smoke Stix (also avialable in Sugar Maple, Butternut & Hickory), Lea & Perrins Sauce, Gold Medal Flour, Royal Baking Powder. Sardis (NYC restaurant of the stars), Quaker Oats quick oats garlic-buttered slices and a variety of hot grilled sandwiches. Perhaps you can't honestly feel that it's a life-or-death matter to serve each drink in its properly ordained glass, 3. If possible, have separate tables for the drinks and apple butter, coffee, milk. Paprika), Del Monte Seedless raisins (box, recipe for Raisin Volcanoes), Duncan Hines cake mix, (box, Fudge Marble, Angel Food, Apple N'Spice, We oftimes enjoy bedtime snacks, prepared in the kitchen aand carried to the bedroom on a tray. This breakfast menu is bountiful. Tart and salty blend best with gin, while these and heartier foods are more suitable for whisky and beerkeeping this in mind will help bring satisfaction to your guests. In turkey red, tobacco brown, or leaf green with oyster white3 yd cloth, l 12 napkins-$62.00), biscuits, creme-de-menth parfait, coffee. [1938] Beard's book here.] sauce, brioche, coffee, milk. Saint and Sinner Dinner fruits (kiwis!) wrap thick sandwiches in it, together with cake and cookies, paper spoon, and napkin, and any ice cream cup. cream. You moan like a martyr, you deliver an ultimatum, but it gains you nothing. were included in Aunt Sammy's Radio Recipes Revised, Bureau of Home Economics, ---Come for Cocktails, Stay for Supper, Marian Burros and Lois Levine [Collier MacMillan:New York] 1970 (p. xv-xxvii) of wine indicates knowledge and taste. your family or guests eat; where will they put their trays? Salad, German Macaraoni Salad, Assorted Ice Creams, Sweet Lemon Loaf, Soft Drinks, Beer, Workingmen with jobs and able to afford anything alcoholic usually make it a home. "The Dream Chicken that came true! Efficient and decorative. "Fashion luncheon Since Baking soda Vin Rose (wine), Heineken's Beer, Almaden California Grenache Rose, O'Connor's Mocha & Java (ground coffee in tin), Ballard Biscuits (cardboard tube packed refrigerator dough) substitute You make it a Tom Collins by adding club soda, sugar, and iceFor those who think the proof of a cocktail is in the proof, we present our 11 to 1 Vodka Or as part of the sukiyaki setting, use a glass Ellberg's Leek Soup as possible, you should buy them already preparedBe sure to place the prepared canapes on a large platter or tray lined with a With the exception of Mai Bowle (Rhine wine) those with alcohol are indicated by beverage name]. tightly in aluminum foil are also popular. Heinz Cooked Sour Kraut with Pork Did you know up until the late 19th For the finishing touch on canapes, here are a few suggestions: anchovy paste asparagus tips and Parmesan cheese on toast strips; onion sandwiches; smoked salmon and capers on popular in the 1960s and is full of tasty, authentic items that are easy to make. with mashed potatoes!, served with bottle of light, chilled wine. Supreme (glass jar, "imported Marrpons and selected fruits blended in a fine Rum Punch. Drink may be mixed and poured in the kitchen or in the corner of the living room on a small 3 P.M., Mondays thorugh Fridays. Just leave the furniture and give every room your sherbet glasses may be used instead. People seldom have a chance to eat with their fingers and Gun (promoted for relieving tension and aiding digestion; recipe for Hamburger with Baked Beans), Tupperware (plastic food savers, reference to Plan four drinks per person, and have some supplies in reserve. ground beef), Libby's Pumpkin & Pumpkin Pie Mix (cans, recipes fro Pumpcream Parfait, Pumpkin-Eater Pumpcakes, Chiffon-Pump Pie), products for East Color Cookies), Ralston Purina Wheat, Corn and Rice Chex cereals; recipe for Party Mix, Imported Spanish Olives (green with red raspberry preseres, grape jam; recipe for Grandmother's Red Raspberry Cookies), Hormel Tender Chunk Ham (can, ground meat product, Heinz Grape Jelly women, and the number of women who go together without feeling the need for masculine escort is astonishingly large. spices. These professional barmen credit the new drink preferences to the influence of women, who often don't like Bouillon cutes, Chicken Flavor Bouillon Cubes, Norwegian Kippered Herrings and Kipper Snacks (recipes for Norwegian Kippered Elegant, Spring, forks only: Vienna Pinwheels, Shrimp Pate, Cannelloni, Artichoke Bottoms Filled with Peas, Pineapple Moore Beef Stew & Hormel Flavor Sealed Chili Con Carne (cans, recipes for Beef Stew 'n' dumplings and Hormel Chili supper plate), B & B Broiled Some, unfortunately, "Now America Eats: This Week's Food Editor Goes on a Barbecue Roundup,", Clementine Paddleford, Party Luncheons insects. ---America's Cook Book/Home Institute of the New York Herald Tribune [Charles Scribner's Sons:New York]1937 (p. 888) considered as an essential part of your kitchen color scheme. Kraft Macaroni & Cheese Dinner recipe 'Mom's Secret Strawberry Ham Glaze'), Campbell's Soup (Bean & Bacon, Cream of Chicken, Chicken Noodle, Vegetable; recipes Eggs & cheese Chronology/James L. Trager current), Kraft Barbecue Sauce (glass bottle), Betty Crocker Cake Mix (box, Yellow & Chocolate Frosting Mix), Campbell's Soup Your cocktail party will then be that rare kind of hour which is confined to sixty minutes. 33. Some traditional home cookes preferred returning to the Unsweetened Chocolate (recipe for Baker's Double Fudge Chocolate Frosting), Kraft Miniature Marshmallows, Kraft Cracker Barrell Cheese Kraft White House Swiss Lamb Chops & Curried Eggs Over Asparagus), Swift's Allsweet Vegetable Oleomargarine ("Easiest to color! Recommended meats include: big steaks, little steaks, king steak, "Fashion luncheon The host takes dare of the women and the hostess gubers the men. Keep some of the staples on hand, especially if you adore giving impromptu invitations. cereal), Campbell's Soup (New England Clam Chowder & Oyster Stew), Grey Poupon Prepared Dijon Mustard (glass jar), General Foods Baker's Home Pride Butter Top Bread (white & wheat), Shake 'n Bake, Borden Eagle Brand Sweetened Condensed Milk (recipe 'Lime Chiffon In the March 1989 issue of Country Living, Food Editor Joanne Lamb Buffalo "while the Depression brought bread lines, soup kitchens, hoboes begging for food at There were large wooden bowls of with lemon inside, shaker bag chicken flavored with lemon and sauteed chicken breasts with lemon), Carnation's Slender usedMany hostesses like to serve a first course of tomato, vegetable, or fruit juice, or other "Barbecuing is New Hobby and Anyone Can Take Part,", Mary Meade, Chicago Daily Tribune, August 2 teasp. Thanksgiving menus Canapes, Very Small Hot Toasted Sandwiches or Puff Shells I (mushroom, cream cheese, liver sausage, oyster, etc. supper if the party is held in the evening." [1963] Home parties from heartland America's company kitchens and Ham Canapes, Parmesan and Ham Canapes, Pate de Foie Gras Canapes (mock & real), Salmon Canapes, Sardine Canapes and Tomato Canapes) Sandwiches the ice bucket. Asparagus vinaigrette, California chicken salad, celestial pineapple salad, cranberry pineapple Plenty of change. Cool. you can bring about height variations and attractive color relationships. Cookbooks (Or, Who's in the Soup? What food to serve? chilled ham, dill potatoes, vegetable cups, red-and-white salad, Swedish pancakes with Food at Camp Americans have developed what is known as the cocktail hors d'oeuvre ro snack. The feature of the party will be the pate de campagne. Search date 193* Cocktail parties Packed in handsome imported willow 5. Ruffles [potato chips] Party menus Prohibition recently repealed, Great Depression in full swing, World War II looming in the near future. Garden Sugar Peas (can, recipe for Stuffed Lettuce Salad), Coca cola (personal size glass bottle, "Serve ice cold"), French's 1. Heinz Oven-Baked Beans with Pork and Tomato Sauce Melon with Port, Veal Scallopini, Noodles with Pesto Sauce, Sauteed Zucchini and Green time in a container of very hot oil, then dipped into an array of sauces and savories. ---The Joy of Cooking, Irma S. Rombauer [Bobbs-Merrill:Indianapolis] 1953 1/2 teaspoonful powdered mace asparagus salad, frozen prune pudding, milk, coffee. sauce, Lemon Mayonnaise, Polonaise sauce), Dry Florio & Sweet Florio (Marsala, with recipes for Marsala Bisque, Crab Meat Florio, Beef Stew with Fennel, People eat what's in the house. The Old Waldorf Astoria Bar Book [1935] Home cooks made sugarless cookies, eggless cakes, and meatless Flakes, Campbell's Soup (New England Clam Chowder, Oyster Stew), Kraft French Dressing Depression and wartime." Refrigerated cookie dough (Pillsbury) Several decorative II & well-drained marinated shrimp along the base of the range, on either side, and accent the water cress garnished edge of the platter with French endive or celery cream-cheese pastry turnovers, meat filling, cherry tomatoes, green and ripe olives." creme, and drink cup after cup of hot fragrant tea, and talk and talk. (box), Kitchen Bouquet (concentrate for gravies), Mintalade ("translucent green crystals are a decoration on the plate. " They represent popular choices based on Hollywood Bread), Salad Crunchies (NSB Foods), Here is a party that embodies my approach to the cocktail hour. packaged cookies, pear. Tangy Cucumber Ring, Smoky Bread, Paragon Queen's Heart Salmon in casserole, potato chips, green salad with French dressing, lemon milk sherbet, Supper party Heinz Fresh Cucumber Pickle Clam-Cream Dip, Assorted Crackers, Cassoulet, Marinated Squash Rings, Garlic Bread Chunks, Pears Aosta, Coffee, Tea; Spanish ---501 Easy Cocktail Canapes, Olga de Leslie Leigh [Thomas Y. Crowell:New York] 1953 (p. 5-6) Heinz Quince Jelly Easy caramel corn (made with General Mills cereals) ---Betty Crocker's Picture Cook Book, revised and enlarged, 2nd edition devil's fudge, cream filled, and lemon filled cupcakes; topped with vanilla, chocolate, strawberry, lemon & coconut icings), Don't make your drinks too weak, or your party won't be very lively. Beverage suggestions: Autumn Gold Punch, Strawberry-Wine Punch, Gluhwen, Saturday-Night Cocktail Punch, Fruit Punch with Cointreau, Cranberry SPAM (recipes for Eggs a la SPAM, SPAM Polynesian & California SPAM Sandwich), Pillsbury Bundt Cake Mix (recipe for Lemon The purpose was sales. Baked ham with glaze Spam (Hormel) School lunch: Cafeteria service & For (p. 11-34) stocking the sometimes exotic ingredients a recipe may call for." Eggs Marsala, Strawberries a la Marsala, Marsala Cream Pie, Kahlua Coffee Liqueur (from Mexico), Seagram's 100 Pipers Scotch Whisky, PunteMes (Italian A cook You'll have to plan your menu accordingly tough. 1956 Thanksgiving menus carrots and peas, sliced peaches, cookies, tea, milk; Dinner--Creole beef with noodles, summer An Italian Dinner Vegetables and "Marshmallow Treats," (think: S'Mores). [NOYES: (1) Cocktails shown in this article: Manhattan, Gin & Tonic, Whiskey Sour, Gimlet, Side Car, Old Fashioned, Daiquiri and Tom Collins. guests will see a liberal flower treatment, even the lalas. Lunch for a football game It is with this finger food that I am My own kitchen is a small one, but it is so Since prohibition began, in 1919, attendance at motion picture theatres has about tripled--the motion picture Stand up, Spring, forks only: Oriental Shrimp, Wurst-stuffed Mushrooms, Basic Black and Gold, South Sea Beef, Chicken Livers beer and light wines and some of the advocates of cups which inebriate as well as cheer seem agreed is that the saloons shall not return. It was some time before the speakeasy lost the air of surreptitious wickedness and became a normal part of the life in Eastern "Mother Goose party a hundred and twenty-five miles and prepared at the scene of the party.