Hundred-year-old Thanksgiving Menus
It's interesting to note what's on the menu not only for what's on it, but what isn't. The authoris of these menus didn't necessarily think that you had to have turkey. Indeed, turkey is only on one of the menus. "Roast fowl" is on two of them. But what sort of fowl were they thinking of? Any fowl? Pheasant?
And wine isn't on the menu at all. I note that as if you spend any time watching the endless Thanksgiving shows that will now be appearing on the Food Channel, or whatever, they're all going to have a part, or at least some surely will, where somebody talks about pairing wine with turkey (as they're all going to feature turkey. . . which is okay as I like turkey).
They're all going to have pumpkin pie as well. . . which only one of these does. One of these, for that matter, has Maple Parfait. What's that?
Interesting stuff.
1 comment:
Thanks for the link. It's wonderful to hear that you enjoyed the Hundred Years Ago post on Thanksgiving menus. It's fascinating how much we can leave about how people ate a hundred years ago from looking at these menus.
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