Maybe I plan Christmas menus that are too complicated. A hundred years ago American Cookery magazine provided several “moderately simple” menu options.
1924 Christmas Menus
Maybe I plan Christmas menus that are too complicated. A hundred years ago American Cookery magazine provided several “moderately simple” menu options.
Clearly, their definition of moderately simple and mine are entirely different 😀 I’ve made some interesting and somewhat involved Christmas dinners, since we try to do something different each year, but none of them have come close to any of these. Interesting!
I’m exhausted just looking at those menus!
My goodness, how coud anyone plough through any of those menus? I feel stuffed just reading them!
I don’t see any of that as easy. What is an oyster plant? I do a “cold” Christmas and make ahead cold dishes, order ham and turkey that don’t need heated so I can enjoy the day.
I think they mean salsify: “A root vegetable belonging to the dandelion family, salsify is also known as the oyster plant because of its similar taste when cooked. The root is similar in appearance to a long, thin parsnip, with creamy white flesh and a thick skin. In the same way as many root vegetables, salsify can be boiled, mashed or used in soups and stews.”
I think they meant salpicón, a Spanish word meaning medley, which is dish of ingredients that are diced or minced, with a sauce or liquid. It is used as stuffing or salad. Minced celery with parmesan would be like a salad, which would be accompanying the soup, which sounds pretty fruity with apples and checkerberries! Toasterettes were a small whole wheat flour wafer served with soup or salad.
Obviously the meaning of the terms “moderate” and “simple” have changed a bit over the years
I would aim for, “So simple a simpleton could do it.”
What in the world is devilled coffee? I found Deville coffee, and deviled chili coffee eggs but nothing for devilled coffee.
I was just wondering the same thing!
I can often turn up an answer in the newspaper archives, but not this time. And frankly, I have to wonder about a recipe for deviled chili coffee eggs!
Too complicated for me! I’d be running back and forth from kitchen to table and not have any time to enjoy my food! !
My goodness I’m glad I don’t have to make these meals! Or eat them. 😂
Sounds like a lot of work:)
This would be work, and they didn’t have all the wonderful culinary tools we have today!
Those seem like work. Maybe that is where the term cooking for weeks at a time came about
Maybe they had servants to do the cooking?
I had to laugh! Moderately simple? Oh my word!
cheers
sherry