I recently came across a menu for basket refreshments for a motor party in a hundred-year-old magazine. A motor party picnic sounds like so much fun. If I could only get in a time machine, and go back to the early days of automobiles, dirt roads, and adventures. I’d wear a short dress that only came to my knees (this was the flapper era) and a huge bonnet with ribbons that tied under my chin. I’d put the refreshments in a wicker basket; and, I’d spend all morning cooking and packing refreshments for the trip. We’d drive out into the country and spread out a blanket in a grassy field, and then lay out the spread of food.
Things start to get blurry – Is this motor party a date? An event with friends? A family trip?
Then I come back to reality, and 2024. Sigh. . . maybe I should pack a picnic lunch and take it a nearby park. Somehow it just doesn’t seem the same.
There would probably also be a little home bottled, umm, lemonade, to make the trip interesting.
Yah …I am sure “lemonade
” would be the perfect travel beverage….lol
Definitely some . . .umn. . . lemonade. This was the prohibition era. 🙂
Once a year 3 of us “ladies” come together from different parts of the west coast for 3 or 4 days to share and remember and make new memories together. One time I insisted that we all “dress” up a bit with hats, skirts, gloves optional, and comfortable shoes. I packed a picnic lunch in an old fashioned wicker picnic basket and off we went.
It was lovely and fun and now it is a part of the standing plans each time we gather.
What a lovely idea! I may have to borrow it!
What fun! This sounds wonderful.
The Menu will vary depending on what is in the fridge… We have one Vegetarian who dose no dairy and one who can not have msg. Then there is me and I don’t do tofu . I do most of the “menu” cause I see possibilities. Deviled Eggs, Assorted cheeses for those of us who do dairy, home baked bread cause you never know what others are putting in stuff ( corn bread is quick and easy) homemade baked beans, potato or quinoa salad with homemade mayo… Melon ,Home canned pickles from my pantry this year there will be watermelon pickles, pickle dill green beans and pickled hot carrots. Fresh ice tea cause my family is from the south.
Sounds like fun. They definitely have different tastes in picnic food.
No sliced cold duck or sliced tongue for you? I wonder if these foods (particularly the duck) was considered gourmet at the time.
I’ll pass.
It is nice to let the imagination soar, isn’t it? (But I’ll pass on the sliced duckling and the tongue….!)
On the other hand, the jam turnovers might be tasty. 🙂
Daughter Lise was enthusiastic about a picnic in the mountains, but we have run out of time. For us it would be simple food in a beautiful setting.
I’m with you regarding a picnic with simple foods in a beautiful setting. It exhausts me just thinking about making all the foods in the menu in the old magazine.
What a treat this would be … if someone else did the hard work!
Agree!