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Christmas Menu for Hotel Capitol
Hartford CT
December 25, 1895

Historic New England
A holiday greeting is printed in the menu for Hotel Capitol, Hartford Connecticut. Santa Claus on a rooftop with holly and berries decorates the menu cover. The menu is tied with a red ribbon. MOCK TURTLE. AU QUENELLES SMALL CHICKEN CROQUETTES. SAUCE TOMATO Celery Olives BOILED HALIBUT. TARTAR SAUCE Pommes Saratoga SAUTE CALVES LIVER EN CAISSES. Å LA DEPRETES FILET MIGNON OF BEEF. SAUTE RI-A MOELLE PINEAPPLE FRITTERS. GLACE AU MARASCHINO ROMAN PUNCH ROAST SADDLE OF SOUTHDOWN MUTTON. CURRANT JELLY RHODE ISLAND GOOSE. APPLE SAUCE MASHED POTATOES CREAM CORN SWEET POTATOES BOIL EO RICE GEM PEAS MAYONNAISE OF SALMON PLAIN LETTUCE CHR'STMAS PUDDING. BRANDY SAUCE GREEN APPLE ANGEL CAKE Pie SHEET CIDER ITALIAN MACAROONS PISTACHIO ICE CREAM ASSORTED NUTS RAISINS WXED CANDY CAFÉ NOIR
December 25, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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Menu: December 25

Library of Congress
A Calendar of Dinners, With 615 Recipes
Marion Harris Neil
c1915
Christmas Dinner December 25 Oysters Celery Stuffed Olives Tomato Soup Roast Turkey, Cranberry Jelly Roast Sweet Potatoes Mashed Turnips Brussels Sprouts Orange and Celery Salad Vanilla Blanc-mange *English Plum Pudding Fruit Coffee *English Plum Pudding —1 cupful breadcrumbs, 1 cupful flour, 1 cupful brown sugar, 1/2 cupful Crisco, 1 teaspoonful salt, 2 teaspoonfuls baking powder, 1 teaspoonful mixed spices, 3 eggs, 1 cupful milk, 1/2 cupful seeded raisins, 1/2 cupful chopped candied citron peel, 1 cupful currants, 1/2 cupful chopped preserved ginger, 1/4 cupful brandy, 1/2 cupful chopped English walnut meats. Mix flour with breadcrumbs, add Crisco, sugar, salt, baking powder, spices, nuts, fruit, milk, eggs well beaten, and brandy. Pour into Criscoed mold, cover with greased paper and steam steadily for four hours. Turn out and serve with liquid or hard sauce. The brandy may be omitted.
December 25, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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Luchow's Christmas Dinner Menu

CIA
New York, NY
1961
Merry Christmas Christmas Dinner Six Dollars Monday, December 25, 1961 Oyster, Shrimp or Fruit Cocktail Herring Salad Smoked Eel Crabflake Cocktail Marinated Herring Half Grapefruit, Maraschino Celery Radishes Olives Consomme with Marrow Dumplings Goose Giblet Soup with Barley Boiled Live Carp, Creamed Fresh Horseradish Air Delivered Fresh Brook Trout Saute Amandines Breast of Capon a la Luchow, Wild Rice Roast Watertown Goose, Apple Stuffing Roast Young Vermont Turkey Chestnut Stuffing Fresh Cranberry Compote Roast Prime Rib of Beef au Jus Wiener Schnitzel Red Cabbage with Apples Puree of Broccoli New Peas, Bonne Femme Mashed, Boiled or Candied Sweet Potatoes Julienne of Hearts of Lettuce with Grapefruit Supreme Santa Klaus Ice Cream Christmas Stollen Hot Mince Pie Pumpkin Pie Plum Pudding, Hard and Brandy Sauce Coffee Special Imp. Wurzburger Doppel Bock Tulip 40 Seidel 75 Imported Augustiner Export Light Tulip 35 Seidel 70 Luchow's New York City
December 24, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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Alta Club Christmas Dinner menu

CIA
1948
Merry Christmas Alta Club CHRISTMAS DINNER 1948 Chicken Okra with Rice Louisiana Consomme Royale Jellied Consomme Grapefruit Juice Tomato Juice Apricot Nectar Fresh Jumbo Prawn Cocktail Fruit Cup Supreme Wafers Celery and Colossal Olives Roast Young Utah Turkey, Giblet Gravy, Oyster Dressing 2.50 Baked Sugar Cured Ham with Wine Sauce, Cumberland 2.25 Grilled Fresh Abalone Steak with Bacon, Julienne Potatoes 1.95 Broiled Half Lobster with Melted Butter, Shoe String Potatoes 2.50 Filet of Genuine Sole Saute in Butter, Meuniere 1.90 Broiled New York Cut Sirloin Steak, Maitre D'Hotel 3.50 Fried Half Milk Fed Chicken with Corn Fritters and Bacon, Country Style 2.35 Omelette aux Confiture, Celestine 1.95 Avocado Stuffed with Fresh Crab Meat Salad 1.90 Hot Butterflake Rolls and Butter Candied Yams or Baked Buttered Idaho Potato Green Peas in Butter or Baked Banana Squash Hearts of Lettuce with Grapefruit and Avocado Chef's Dressing Hot English Plum Pudding with Hard and Brandy Sauce Apple, Pumpkin or Hot Mince Pie with Hard and Brandy Sauce Lime or Pineapple Sherbet and Petits Fors Vanilla, Chocolate, Strawberry or Eggnog Ice Cream and Fruit Cake Rum Parfait Half Grapefruit Baked Apple Melba Peaches Butter Cream Pastries Your Favorite Cheese with Bent's Toasted Watercrackers Fruit Cake
December 24, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Christmas Salad

Hathitrust
The New Calendar of Salads: 365 Answers to the Daily Question: "What shall we have
for salad?"
Elizabeth O. Hiller
192?
DECEMBER TWENTY-FIFTH CHRISTMAS SALAD Drain the required number of slices of canned Hawaiian pineapple from the syrup in can. Arrange them on individual plates and cut in mangles and leave in their original shape. Cut narrow pointed petals from pimientos and arrange 5 of them above each slice of pineapple, radiating from center and not quite meeting. Sur- round pineapple with small heart lettuce leaves standing upright. Set a small rose of mayonnatse in center of each poinsettia and pipe a small frill around pineapple. Serve very cold with Christmas dinner.
December 24, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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The Plaza, Christmas Dinner menu

CIA
1949
Christmas Dinner 1949 12:00 Noon to 9:00 P.M. Old Fashioned Grapefruit Cocktail or Oysters au Raifort Chicken Soup Plaza Celery Olives Roast Maryland Turkey, Chestnut Dressing Giblet and Cranberry Sauce Candied Sweet Potatoes Mixed Beans in Butter or Puree of Yellow Turnips Heart of Lettuce with Beets Christmas Plum Pudding Apricot Sauce or Hard Sauce or Santa Clause Ice Cream, Fudge Sauce Gaufrette Parisienne Cafe Plaza Restaurant $5.50 per person Sunday December 25, 1949 The Plaza
December 22, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Atlantic Coast Line, Christmas dinner menu

CIA
1928
Illustration of red carriage drawn by horses treading through the snowy countryside at night MERRY CHRISTMAS! ATLANTIC COAST LINE NORTH CAROLINA - SOUTH CAROLINA - GEORGIA - FLORIDA - ALABAMA - VIRGINIA Dinner HEARTS OF FLORIDA CELERY VIRGINIA MANGOES CREAM OF CHICKEN CONSOMME PRINCESS POTOMAC BASS MEUNIERE, POTATOES JULIENNE GRILLED LAMB CHOPS WITH VIRGINIA BACON ROAST YOUNG TURKEY, OYSTER DRESSING, CRANBERRIES CREAMED WHIPPED POTATOES NEW CAULIFLOWER AU GRATIN FLORIDA FRUIT SALAD HOT MINCE PIE ICE CREAM WITH WAFERS TEA COFFEE MILK $1.50
December 22, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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This is from a cookbook published by Crisco. They were not particularly subtle

Library of Congress
A calendar of dinners, with 615 recipes
Marion Harris Neal
c1915
Orange and Tomato Salad 3 tablespoonfuls melted Crisco 1 tablespoonful chopped parsley 4 tomatoes Tarragon vinegar 4 oranges Salt Peel oranges and tomatoes, and slice and arrange alternately in salad bowl. Mix juice squeezed from ‘‘tops and bottoms” of oranges with an equal quantity of tarragon vinegar, add Crisco and salt to taste. Pour over fruit and sprinkle chopped parsley on top
December 21, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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Illustrated London News
1956
advertisement for gordon's gin, advising you to "have the gay gordon's for christmas." Featuring Gordon's dry gin, "shaker" cocktails in 6 varieties, and lemon and orange gin.
December 15, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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"The Sportsmans' hamper, six guineas, contains: Whole Grouse in Port Wine Jelly, Whole Partridge in Sherry Wine Jelly, Whole Pheasant in Burgundy Wine Jelly, Royal Game Soup, Peaches in Brandy, Scottish Fruits in Syrup and a selection of Baxters rare and exclusive jams and preserves."
Memorable Christmas presents Fine foods from Scotland Baxters famous hampers make unforgettable Christmas Gifts for personal and business friends. The Sportsmans' hamper, six guineas, contains : Whole Grouse in Port Wine Jelly, Whole Partridge in Sherry Wine Jelly, Whole Pheasant in Burgundy Wine Jelly, Royal Game Soup, Peaches in Brandy, Scottish Fruits in Syrup and a selection of Baxters rare and exclusive jams and preserves. Or there is the • Speyside' hamper at five guineas, and smaller boxes, the Family Favourites Box ' at 25/- and ' Treasure Chest • at 55/-. Distinctive gifts which compliment the giver and the receiver alike. Sold by fine food shops everywhere. For details of your nearest stockist write to :— BAXTERS OF SPEYSIDE FOCHABERS FOCHAØERS Appointment Her Queen W. A. BAXTER SONS LTD Scotland
December 14, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Okay who's carving?

Charles Dana Gibson
November 1903
Internet Archive
Life magazine cover. A woman in profile, wearing a salmon-colored dress with a white apron tied at the waist, carries a platter with a cherub on it. Baby angels: it's what's for dinner
November 27, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Thanksgiving menu

The National Course in Home Economics: How to Practice Economy in the Home
Internet Archive
1917
"So gladly we welcome the happy day, That comes when the summer is o'er, When the scattered friends we love so well. Round the home hearth meet once more! A peanut doll dressed in blue and white crepe paper in Puritan costume, holding a few heads of wheat, makes an appro- / priate and dainty Thanksgiving favor. Decorate the table with autumn leaves. Corn, husked and tied together, is most effective, suspended here and there from the walls and between the doors, As Thanksgiving is the one day of the year when all America gives praise for prosperity and freedom, an unusually well-filled board is not only in good taste, but is expected. To make a unique Thanksgiving dessert, cut a small pumpkin across the top. Carefully scoop out the inside. Place on a dish and fill with Floating Island; replace the pumpkin top. Garnish the platter with generous sprigs of autumn leaves, and on these lay a variety of sliced cakes. menu "let us eat and be merry." - luke 15:23 BREAKFAST Grapes Oatmeal Country Sausages Scrambled Eggs Browned Potatoes Entire Wheat Griddle Cakes Maple Syrup Coffee DINNER Oysters on Half Shell Mutton Broth Celery Turkey, stuffed with oysters Cranberry Sauce Mashed Potatoes Baked Squash Boiled Onions, with cream sauce Peach Pickles Waldorf Salad Cheese Wafers Mince Pie Pudding, Puritan style SUPPER Cold Roast Turkey Tea Biscuits Cottage Cheese Sweet Tomato Pickles Thanksgiving Cake Fruit Glace Tea Nuts Fruit Coffee As this is a day of general rejoicing, see that the poor are not forgotten. Don't forget the adage, "Love thy neighbor as thyself."
November 27, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Traditional Thanksgiving day dinner menu

Metuchen Golf and Country Club
Edison, NJ
1915
TRADITIONAL THANKSGIVING DAY DINNER APPETIZERS Fruit Compote with Champagne Chilled Fruit Juices Filete of Herring in Sour Cream Relish Trays SOUP Cream of Mushroom SALAD ENTREES’ ROAST VERMONT TURKEY, DRESSING 8. 25 BAKED VIRGINA HAM, FRUIT SAUCE 8.25 ROAST LEG OF LAMB, MINT JELLY 8.25 BOILED STUFFED SHRIMP WITH CRAB MEAT 9.25 ROAST PRIME RIBS OF BEEF, AU JUS 11.50 VEGETABLES: Turnips, Cauliflower, Yams, Mashed Potatoes DESSERT Pumpkin Pie Apple Pie Minced Pie Rice Pudding Ice Cream Children under 14, half price
November 27, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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Pine Tree Inn Thanksgiving menu
Lakehurst, NJ
November 26, 1931
thanksgiving day fruit cocktail consomme, pate d'italie boston clam chowder radishes celery sweet gherkins cherry and pineapple preserve queen olives boiled codfish, hollandaise braised sweetbreads provencal fresh mushrooms on toast bartlett pear fritters, glace' new jersey turkey, roasted, cranberry sauce roast prime ribs fo beef au jus mashed potatoes boiled sweet potatoes boiled onions, naturel stewed corn fresh green beans steamed rice cole slaw, pimientos lettuce with french or mayonnaise dressing peach tapioca pudding, hard sauce mince pie pumpkin pie charlotte russe angel cake macaroons lady fingers assorted cake pineapple cherry ice cream american and swiss cheese saltines california oranges bananas pitted dates coffee nov 26/31 pine tree inn the inn in the pines lakehurst, n.j.
November 26, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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Menu for Thanksgiving at an unidentified restaurant
November 25, 1948
Culinary Institute of America
THANKSGIVING DAY THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1948 Served from 5:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. Chicken Okra Louisiana Consomme Royale Jellied Consomme Grapefruit Juice Tomato Juice Cranberry Juice Fresh Jumbo Prawn Cocktail Baked Half Grapefruit au Rum Wafers Celery Ripe Olives * * * * Roast Young Turkey with Oyster Dressing, Giblet Gravy 2.50 Broiled New York Cut Sirloin Steak, Maitre D'Hotel 3.50 Roast Long Island Duckling with Apple Sauce 2.50 Broiled Half Lobster with Melted Butter and Shoestring Potatoes 2.50 Filet of Genuine Sole Saute in Butter, Meuniere 1.90 Omelette with Creamed Oysters, Poulette 2.00 Broiled English Lamb Chop with Pickled English Walnut 2.50 Half Avocado Stuffed with Fresh Crab Meat Salad 1.95 Hot Butterflake Rolls and Butter Candied Yams or Baked Buttered Idaho Potato Fresh Broccoli, Hollandaise or Creamed Kernal Corn Waldorf Salad with Walnuts Chantilly Dressing **** Hot English Plum Pudding with Hard and Brandy Sauce Apple or Pumpkin
November 26, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Trimming ideas for turkey and pie

Holiday cookbook: special foods for all special occasions
Better Homes and Gardens
1959
Internet Archive
Thanksgiving Pretty trimmings of the season- Golden touch for turkey Fluffy yellow chrysanthemums make the turkey drumsticks festive. (Snipsome from your living-room bouquet!) Platter garnish one more flower plus pineapple rings topped with small bunches of sugared green grapes. Colorful accent-crab apples Remove cores from stem end of spiced crab apples; poke on ends of drumsticks. Or, anchor fluffs of parsley to drumsticks. Quick platter trim rounds of jellied cranberry sauce, topped with pineapple rings, split and twisted in S-shape. 88 Pumpkin-pie cornucopias... Cut slice of American proc ess cheese in half on diag-onal: roll each piece on long side. Anchor cornucopias with whole cloves. Arrange in pinwheel shape in center of pie (one per piece). ... or whipped-cream "daisy" Each snowy petal takes 1 large spoonful of whipped cream. To make petal, turn spoon sideways and flip oval island of whipped cream onto pumpkin pie. Form five or six petals one for each
November 26, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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Celery nut salad in an apple with green mayonnaise on top

The San Francisco Call Bulletin
Sun, Nov 25, 1900
Royal Salad. Cut out the core of pared apples and scoop out a well in center, fill with minced celery, nut meats broken fine. and top with a mayonnaise tinted delicate green with vegetable coloring.
November 22, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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The Brooklyn Daily Times
Nov 20, 1925
Plenty of turkeys, cheap, seen by Commissioner of Markets Turkeys are to be plentiful and cheap for Thanksgiving, says Markets Commissioner Edwin J O'malley. Retail prices should be in the neighborhood of 60 cents a pound for the best birds and as low as 45 cents for cold storage turkeys. The Commissioner bases this estimate on the wholesale price of 40 cents a pound for the best live turkeys. Commissioner O'malley issues this optimistic statement despite the fact that this year's supply of turkeys is less than last year's due to the warm weather and the drought in Texas. Up to now, turkeys had been bringing a high price in the local market because of warm weather. But it is expected that Virginia and the other southern states, where New York gets most of her turkeys, will ship a large enough supply between now and next Wednesday to warrant a considerable slump in price.
November 21, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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we’re about to start seeing a lot of “here’s a cost effective meal your grandparents made during the great depression”
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November 11, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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idk what Plombiere Appropos is but I want it

Algonquin Club, Boston, Nov 3, 1912

Historic New England
An image of a woman in a bonnet standing next to a wall decorates the menu cover. In the lower right corner of the cover is an image of a Native American man with the words "Algonquin Club." A portrait of an unidentified man is opposite the menu. The names of the Committee on Admissions are listed in the menu. MENU BUFFET RUSSE CAPE OYSTERS POTAGE CHASSEUR PLANKED POMPANO VERMONT TURKEY Aux BRAISED CELERY Au SWEETBREADS SORBET BUTTERBALL oucKS WILD RICE CROQUETTES WALDORF SALAD CAMEMBERT CHEESE PLOMBIERE APPROPOS COFFEE
November 3, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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I don’t know what “apples, goblin style” are, but I want them served at my funeral.
oldtimey.bsky.social Old Timey Food @oldtimey.bsky.social · Oct 29
The Chicago Defender
Sat, Oct 31, 1925
HALLOWEEN SUPPERS Club Sandwtchas Apples, Goblin Style Doughnuts Individual Pumpkin Pies Salted Peanuts celery Olives Cheese Sandwiches Ram and Pickle Sandwiches Butter-Scotch Pies Cider Apples
October 30, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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The Chicago Defender
Sat, Oct 31, 1925
HALLOWEEN SUPPERS Club Sandwtchas Apples, Goblin Style Doughnuts Individual Pumpkin Pies Salted Peanuts celery Olives Cheese Sandwiches Ram and Pickle Sandwiches Butter-Scotch Pies Cider Apples
October 29, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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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...
purple hooded sweatshirt with a golden eye peering out the center, surrounded by trippy golden stars outlined in black. The sleeves have stars too. black hooded sweatshirt with a skeleton figure with arms flung high, a gun in each hand. navy blue crewneck with art deco type ladies reading. Text reads "books for everyone." hunter green tee shirt with vintage historical poster on the front. Text: Oriel Theatre, Glencoe. 1 Midnite Show Only, 11:15 pm. Tues May 15. Warning! This is a "scare" show. Not recommended for children under 12. Mel Roy on the stay. Midnite Spook Party. Talking Skulls, Spirit Slate Writing, Spirit Table Raising. Ghosts from the dead. Text and background are a mixture of purple and orange.
October 18, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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I sometimes think that some of these recipes must be practical jokes
October 25, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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this feels extremely "people are arriving and I forgot to get ingredients" but then a lot of the old time recipes feel like that
oldtimey.bsky.social Old Timey Food @oldtimey.bsky.social · Oct 25
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Modern Priscilla Cookbook
1924
WHITE SALAD 1 quart cabbage (chopped) 2 cups almonds 2 cups marshmallows Chop cabbage very fine. Chop almonds Cut marshmallows in small pieces. Mix and serve with a whipped cream dress- ing. Servings, 8.
October 25, 2025 at 4:00 PM