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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 · 27d
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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kbax.bsky.social
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
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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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This is an abomination
October 23, 2025 at 1:42 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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HEARTY MEALS LOVE RAISINS a pot of beans with raisins, a piece of meat with raisins and a cheeseburger with raisins CALIFORNIA RAISINS ADD A TOUCH OF MAGIC TO ANYTHING YOU MAKE.
October 20, 2025 at 5:05 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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marcie808.bsky.social
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
October 11, 2025 at 4:58 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