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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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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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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 3:55 PM
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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
BAKED BEAN SANDWICH. Press one-half cup cold baked beans through a Sieve, add one tablespoon tomato catsup, one-half teaspoon made mustard, and a few drops of onion juice. Place between slices of brown bread or whole wheat bread.-Mrs. E. F. ONeil. CELERY SANDWICHES Mix one cup of tender celery stalks, one-quarter cup each of English walnuts and olives chopped fine; moisten with mayon- naise dressing and spread between slices of brown bread cut in rounds with a cooky cutter.- -Mrs A. Wesley Stetson.
October 24, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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All trains
All meals
Ala carte
All the way
All the time

1902
NYPL
advertisement for the dining cars of a train line, Mobile and Ohio RR. Christmas, 1903. Drawing of a man and woman in pilgrim style clothes sitting across from each other at a table. He is serving her turkey or chicken. All trains All meals Ala carte All the way All the time
October 23, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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I really wish there were a date on this! What a delightfully unexpected menu

Historic New England
Undated
Menu: Bluepoints, deep shell Soup: Clear Green Turtle, Julienne Fish: Penobscot Salmon a la hollandaise, smelts a la tartare Removes: Saddle Kentucky mutton w/ caper sauce, Fillet beef with mushrooms Entrees: Fresh mushrooms on toast, roman punch Game: Red Head DUck Sweets: Omelette Souflee, frozen pudding, roquefort and cream cheese, olives, grapes, candied fruit, pears, ice cream, sherbet, coffee.
October 23, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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From recipe scrap book

Historic New England
undated
A VALUABLE TABLE TO weigh without scales: Ten eggs--1 pound. Soft butter size of egg—one ounce. One pint A sugar—twelve ounces. One pint brown sugar—thirteen ounces. Two teacupfuls n. (level) granulated sugar—one pound. . Two teacupfuls (well heaped) A Sugar one pound. . Two teacupfuls soft butter—one pound. One pint liquid—one pound. One pint chopped meat, one pound.— National Magazine.
October 22, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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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
A white and red bi-fold menu for Mac Arnold's Lobster Pound in Buzzards Bay, Mass. The menu features an illustration of a chef making a clam bake in a stone oven. The menu includes the "Canal Special" meal of clam chowder, lobster, potatoes, vegetables, and a dessert. It also includes specials, luncheon specials, and dinners. Inside the menu is a card that reads: "Special To-day, Martini Cocktail 35 cents." interior of menu with three columns of a la carte items, ranging from stuffed or queen olives for 25 cents to lobster thermidor for 1.75. Categories are: Apps, Chowders and Soups, Clams and Fish, Lobsters, Chicken, Steaks and Chops, Salads, Cold Meats, Sandwiches, Spaghetti, Potatoes and Veg, Cheese, Desserts, and Beverages.
October 21, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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The universal food chopper and a few of the things it chops

Forbes Lithograph Manufacturing Company
1899
Library of Congress
ad for "the universal food chopper" showing a manual food processor with a line of animals (pigs, lobster, goats, pheasant, fish, cow, chickens) and vegetables (carrots, coconut, apples, potatoes, celery, lettuce) rushing to get in it--as the ad pronounces, "A few of the things it chops"
October 19, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Violet sandwich vs clove sandwich, a legendary and bloody battle in the class wars
The Longton Gleaner Fri, Sep 29, 1911 Sandwiches made of finely chopped violets spread over thin slices of but- tered bread are being sold in New York grill rooms. Evidently cloves are too plebeian for some of the New Yorkers.
October 12, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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"Drink a bite to eat at 10-2 and 4"

1940
DRINK EAT At 10-2 & 4 Dr Pepper It's delicious ask for it anywhere
October 11, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Dinner and dancing, 1915

New York Tribune
SHANLEY'S Famous for Dinners and Suppers Cabaret Extraordinaire Climax Twenty Acts Every Evening 7 to I of thc Evening's Superior Six - Course Outmg Luncheon, 75c (Music) CAFE BOULEVARD* Telephone. Broadway and 41st St 4220 Bryant. LUNCH 50c. DINNER ONE DOLLAR Famous Hungarian Orchestra DANCING GRILLE FROM SIX.THIRTY TO CLOSE. "paris in new york" cafe des beaux arts 40th st & 6th avenue "really different"
October 10, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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If you're going to the store, please pick up some walnut ketchup and soluble ditto for me

Wellcome Collection
between 1890 and 1899
Label printed in black on white paper. Text is below a coat of arms featuring a lion and a unicorn inside an arched double line border. Text: FROM E. T. PROSSER, (late Hitchcock,) BY APPOINTMENT TO THE GARRISON, 7, HEAD STREET, COLCHESTER. Sauce for Gravy browning Currie Powder Anchovy Essence Indian Soy Salad Oil Lemon Pickle Chili Vinegar Pickles Capers Vinegar Spices Mustard GENUINE Cayenne Pepper Soluble ditto White and Black Pepper Essence Almonds Ginger Lemon Candied Lemon Orange and Citron Peels Isinglass ARROW ROOT, AND OTHER DOMESTIC ARTICLES.
October 8, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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Double, double,
desiccated vegetables and no trouble

Wellcome Collection
between 1890 and 1899
The Portable Food Co's consolidated soups and dessicated vegetables : "no trouble" : Burn, fire! Cauldron bubble! Splendid soup, NO TROUBLE. Portable Food Company. Date: [between 1890 and 1899?] Advertisement image shows three women around a cauldron labeled "no trouble;" they are wearing aprons and caps and each carries a giant spoon. For some reason the spoons are labeled 1, 2, and 6.
October 8, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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Toast Rack

E & D Kinsey
1844-1861
Cincinnati Art Museum
a silver toast rack with small oval leaves dividing the slots, which have a leaf branching out from each side of a long stem a silver toast rack with small oval leaves dividing the slots, which have a leaf branching out from each side of a long stem a silver toast rack with small oval leaves dividing the slots, which have a leaf branching out from each side of a long stem closeup of leaves showing etchings of smaller leaves and possible a monogram
September 16, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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Toast rack

Hukin & Heath
1927
Minneapolis Institute of Art
metal rack with letters spelling out TOAST, between which you put slices of toast. It rests on little metal balls.
September 9, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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"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
photo of futuristic red gun-shaped object with chrome finishings from source: It could have leapt from a 1930s Buck Rogers science fiction comic strip. But 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. This gadget connected the new cocktail culture that took hold after the repeal of Prohibition (which outlawed the sale of alcohol in the United State between 1920 and 1933) with popular science and interest in space travel. The product brochure says the shaved ice can also fill the “ice bag, ” presumably to hold against your aching head after too many cocktails.
September 8, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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The Daily Times
Aug 1, 1903
Turkish Delight Grate a fine. large, pineapple into a bowl and cover with boiling wa- ter; allow it to stand five hours. then strain off the clear liquid and sweeten to taste and freeze to a soft snow. serve in glasses with a spoonful of rea raspberries in the bottom of each glass.
September 5, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Cereal Coffee: The Food Drink
drawing of woman holding up a teacup and saucer bigger than her head. text below advertises "man's best drink," mocon cereal coffee--the food drink, which offers "all the delightful flavor and fragrant aroma with none of the harmful effects of coffee"
September 4, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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Would make a nice little breakfast drink, kinda smoothie-ish

Nanty-Glo Journal
Sept 1, 1921
Banana Cream. Scald one pint of milk. add two well- beaten eggs, two cupfuls of sugar and, when cooked until smooth. one tea- spoonful of vanilla. Add one pint of cream and partly freeze, then stir in one pint of banana pulp, the juice of two oranges and one-half of a lemon. Serve in glasses garnished with ba- nana balls dipped in lemon juice and rolled in powdered sugar.
September 1, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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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
When your Apricocks are green, and so tender that you may thrust a pin through the stone, scald them, and scrape the outside, oft putting them in water as you peel them, till your Tart be ready, then dry them well, and fill your Tart with them, and lay on a good store of fine Sugar, close it up and Bake it, ice it, scrape on sugar, and serve it up.
August 31, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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Okay now this one I have to try

Jell-O: The Dainty Dessert
1905
Maccaroon Velvet Jell-O HIGHEST AWARD. GOLD MEDAL ST. LOUIS EXPOSIT!ON, 1904 Dissolve one package of any flavored Jell-O in one pint of boiling water. When partly congealed, beat until light, adding one cup whipped cream and six crushed maccaroons. Whip all together thoroughly, let- ting it harden, and serve with whipped cream.
August 27, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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You all right babe, you've barely touched your ham-cabbage-pickles-jello salad

Jell-o: America's Most Famous Dessert
1923
LUNCHEON SALAD Dissolve one pack e of Lemon Jell-O in one-half pint of boiling water. Stir until dissolved, then add two tablespoon- fuls vinegar to enough water to make one-half pint and pour all together. Then add one tablespoonful of Spanish pepper. When the Jell-O starts to set add three or four slices of finely cold boiled ham, one-half cup chopped raw cabbage, one fourth cup pimento shredded, three sweet pickles chopped fine and one-half cup broken walnut meats. Serve on lettuce leave with mayonnaise dressing.
August 27, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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Jell-O: America's Most Famous Dessert
1923
JELL-O HORSERADISH RELISH Dissolve a package of Lemon Jell-O in a scant pint of boiling water and two tablespoonfuls vinegar. Add one pimento, one- half green pepper cut fine and half a cup grated horseradish. As it begins to thicken, mold in sweet green peppers, and when set cut in slices. Serve with meat or fish.
August 26, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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Gotta get me some of that sweet, sweet...vinegar candy

The Boston cooking-school cook book
Fannie Merritt Farmer
c1918
Vinegar Candy 2 cups sugar 1 cup vinegar 2 tablespoons butter Pat butter into kettle when melted, add sugar and vinegar. Stir until sugar is dissolved, afterwards occasionally. oil until, when tried in cold water, mixture will become brittle. Turn on a buttered platter to cool. Pull, and cut same as Molasses Candy.
August 24, 2025 at 2:51 AM