Some foods just seem to go together: bacon and eggs, fish and chips, grilled cheese sandwiches and tomato soup. Similarly, a hundred years ago, people often ate certain food combinations. A hundred-year-old cookbook contained a list of suggested foods to serve with various types of meat and fish.
Some of the old-time food combinations were similar to common combinations today; others were quite different. Apples and pork went together both a hundred years ago and now. The list said that applesauce should be served with both post roast and pork croquettes. I’ve seen recent recipes that call for serving cooked apple slices or rings with pork chops and other types of pork.
Other food combination recommendations in the old cookbook seemed more unusual. I can’t quite picture serving olives stuffed with cream cheese with cold tongue – though who am I to say? I can’t remember ever serving cold tongue, so maybe the olives would be lovely with it.
Out of curiosity I looked up walnut catsup (never heard of it!) and learned that it tastes similar to steak sauce or Worcestershire sauce, which sounds like it would taste good with venison.
I like warm tongue, but would serve it with corn bread and fried potatoes! lol
How long does it take to stuff olives with cream cheese? I think I would chop them up and stir them into the cream cheese.