Okay who's carving? Charles Dana Gibson November 1903 Internet Archive

Thanksgiving menu The National Course in Home Economics: How to Practice Economy in the Home Internet Archive 1917

Traditional Thanksgiving day dinner menu Metuchen Golf and Country Club Edison, NJ 1915

Pine Tree Inn Thanksgiving menu Lakehurst, NJ November 26, 1931

Menu for Thanksgiving at an unidentified restaurant November 25, 1948 Culinary Institute of America

Trimming ideas for turkey and pie Holiday cookbook: special foods for all special occasions Better Homes and Gardens 1959 Internet Archive

Celery nut salad in an apple with green mayonnaise on top The San Francisco Call Bulletin Sun, Nov 25, 1900

The Brooklyn Daily Times Nov 20, 1925

My time to shine

idk what Plombiere Appropos is but I want it Algonquin Club, Boston, Nov 3, 1912 Historic New England

I don’t know what “apples, goblin style” are, but I want them served at my funeral.

The Chicago Defender Sat, Oct 31, 1925

So in all of my wandering through old shit on the internet, I find some cute old (public domain) shit that I just want to put on a t-shirt or a mug or whatever, and so I have a shop where I do that. And I'm bored, so all the shirts are 25% from now til Halloween. Spooky! www.etsy.com/shop/DamesAn...

I sometimes think that some of these recipes must be practical jokes

this feels extremely "people are arriving and I forgot to get ingredients" but then a lot of the old time recipes feel like that

🤷‍♀️ Modern Priscilla Cookbook 1924

Modern life may have its pitfalls but at least we've advanced sandwich-making technology sufficiently that we're not eating baked bean or celery sandwiches The Brockton hospital cook book 1910 Internet Archive

All trains All meals Ala carte All the way All the time 1902 NYPL

This is an abomination

I really wish there were a date on this! What a delightfully unexpected menu Historic New England Undated

From recipe scrap book Historic New England undated

I'll have a martini or three, the stuffed olives, a lobster club, potatoes julienne, the fudge cake and some coffee Historic New England 1936

The universal food chopper and a few of the things it chops Forbes Lithograph Manufacturing Company 1899 Library of Congress

Violet sandwich vs clove sandwich, a legendary and bloody battle in the class wars

"Drink a bite to eat at 10-2 and 4" 1940

Okay, gang, it’s 1946 and Bette Davis has just finished A Stolen Life in the midst of moving to Glendale, so she’s understandingly tired and needs a good local restaurant and Donnelly’s fits the bill. She’s treating so what are we having? #TCMParty #VintageMenus

Dinner and dancing, 1915 New York Tribune

If you're going to the store, please pick up some walnut ketchup and soluble ditto for me Wellcome Collection between 1890 and 1899

Double, double, desiccated vegetables and no trouble Wellcome Collection between 1890 and 1899

Toast Rack E & D Kinsey 1844-1861 Cincinnati Art Museum

Toast rack Hukin & Heath 1927 Minneapolis Institute of Art

Okay, gang, it’s 1943 and we just caught Girl Crazy at the Hawaii Theater on Hollywood Boulevard. We’re going around the corner to the Sunset Bowling Center for dinner and a few games so pick your teams and what are we eating? V for Victory ✌🏼#TCMParty

"Instead of death rays, this gun fired ice into cocktail glasses. Activated by a spring-loaded plunger and trigger mechanism, it crushed ice cubes and 'shot' the ice spray out through the rubber gasket, to the delight of guests" Opco Company 1935 Minneapolis Institute of Art

The Daily Times Aug 1, 1903

Cereal Coffee: The Food Drink

Would make a nice little breakfast drink, kinda smoothie-ish Nanty-Glo Journal Sept 1, 1921

Apricocks Green Baked The Gentlewoman's Companion, or, A Guide to the Female Sex : Containing Directions of Behaviour, In All Places, Companies, Relations, And Conditions, From Their Childhood Down To Old Age Hannah Woolley 1682

I am attempting to make this today, from the Southern Cookbook of Fine Old Recipes (1935), and it will be either delicious or a disaster

Okay now this one I have to try Jell-O: The Dainty Dessert 1905

You all right babe, you've barely touched your ham-cabbage-pickles-jello salad Jell-o: America's Most Famous Dessert 1923

Jell-O: America's Most Famous Dessert 1923

Gotta get me some of that sweet, sweet...vinegar candy The Boston cooking-school cook book Fannie Merritt Farmer c1918

taking the "an apple a day" concept a bit too far in the name of advertising The Greensboro Record Mon, Aug 19, 1929

All the meat of the wheat 1926

this feels like I'm about to accidentally create one of those mayo salad recipes that @oldtimey.bsky.social sometimes posts 😂

Yorkshire Evening Argus Aug 5, 1910

Bread and Butter (and Raisin) Pudding

Eat less of the food Fighters need Deny yourself somethingWaste Nothing

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