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Old Timey Food @oldtimey.bsky.social · 4h
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.
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Old Timey Food @oldtimey.bsky.social · 6h
why do their spoons have the numbers 1, 2, and 6? Is it a conspiracy? Numerology? Just to mess with people's heads?
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Old Timey Food @oldtimey.bsky.social · 7h
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.
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Old Timey Food @oldtimey.bsky.social · 22d
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
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Old Timey Food @oldtimey.bsky.social · 29d
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.
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Marcie8🎃8 @marcie808.bsky.social · Sep 8
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
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Old Timey Food @oldtimey.bsky.social · Sep 8
"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.
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Old Timey Food @oldtimey.bsky.social · Sep 5
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.
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Old Timey Food @oldtimey.bsky.social · Sep 4
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"
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Old Timey Food @oldtimey.bsky.social · Sep 1
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.
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Old Timey Food @oldtimey.bsky.social · Aug 31
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.
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Kristy Baxter @kbax.bsky.social · Aug 30
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
Strawberry Jam Cake 1 cup butter cup sugar 1 cup strawberry jam 1/2 cup strong black coffee 1 teaspoon cinnamon 14 teaspoon cloves 3 eggs, separated 2 1/2 cups flour 1 teaspoon soda. dissolved in 4 tablespoons sour cream Cream butter well, add sugar gradually and beat well. Add jam and coffee to which spices have been added. Beat yolks of eggs and blend with first mixture. Sift flour and add alternately with sour cream in which soda has been dis. solved. Fold in the stiffly beaten egg whites. Bake in layers in moderate oven (350 F.) 45 to 55 minutes. Ice with favorite icing.
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Old Timey Food @oldtimey.bsky.social · Aug 27
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.
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Old Timey Food @oldtimey.bsky.social · Aug 27
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.
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Old Timey Food @oldtimey.bsky.social · Aug 26
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.
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Old Timey Food @oldtimey.bsky.social · Aug 24
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.
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Old Timey Food @oldtimey.bsky.social · Aug 19
taking the "an apple a day" concept a bit too far in the name of advertising

The Greensboro Record
Mon, Aug 19, 1929
HEALTH— Why spend money for doc- tors when you can eat here and be healthy. Others do. WOMBLE & JOHNSON CAFE Hot Biscuits a Specialty 119 E. Washington St.
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Old Timey Food @oldtimey.bsky.social · Aug 19
All the meat of the wheat

1926
All the meat of the wheat SHREDDED WHEAT TRISCUIT is Shredded Wheat in wafer form-delicious with butter, cheese or marmalades
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keri @keristars.bsky.social · Aug 1
this feels like I'm about to accidentally create one of those mayo salad recipes that @oldtimey.bsky.social sometimes posts 😂
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keri @keristars.bsky.social · Aug 1
hmm. could i fake a béarnaise by mixing some lemon juice and herbs with Duke's mayo. i don't have tarragon, though.
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Old Timey Food @oldtimey.bsky.social · Aug 5
Yorkshire Evening Argus
Aug 5, 1910
HOE'S SAUCE Hoe's Sauce is so wholesome and delicious, that even the most delicate appetite is tempted by it.
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Old Timey Food @oldtimey.bsky.social · Jul 21
Bread and Butter (and Raisin) Pudding
Jewell County Republican Fri, Jun 24, 1910 Bread and Butter Pudding. Cut a dozen slices of bread one-half inch thick, remove the crust and spread generously with butter. Arrange the slices in a buttered baking dish, buttered side down. Parboil one cup of raisins, shred them and sprinkle between the layers of bread, Beat three eggs slightly, add two-thirds of a cup of sugar, a speck of salt and one quart of milk. Strain and pour over the bread. Let stand one-half hour. Bake one hour in a moderate oven, covered the first half hour, then brown. Serve with a hard sauce.
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Old Timey Food @oldtimey.bsky.social · Jul 21
Eat less of the food Fighters need
Deny yourself somethingWaste Nothing
"Our Flags. Beat Germany. Support every flag that opposes Prussianism. Eat less of the food Fighters need, Deny yourself something. Waste Nothing." national archives between circa 1917 and circa 1919
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Dean Booth 🦆🐇 @deanbooth.bsky.social · Jul 20
Wheat Food, now STERILIZED for your protection!
A box of Vito’s cereal.
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Old Timey Food @oldtimey.bsky.social · Jul 20
You're on a trip with President McKinley on the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1899, this is your breakfast menu
Fruit Baked Apples with Cream Broiled Oysters on Toast Malt Breakfast Food with Cream Pillsbury's Vitos with Cream Orange Marmalade Preserved Cherries Coffee Cocoa Chocolate English Breakfast and Green Tea Salt Mackerel Black Bass Broiled-Tenderloin or Sirloin Steak, Plain, or with Mushrooms Ham Lamb Chops, Plain, or with Tomato Sauce Bacon Deerfoot Farm Sausage Broiled Squab on Toast Eggs-Boiled, Fried, Poached, Shirred, Omelets Potatoes-Baked, French Fried, Saratoga Potatoes, Creamed Bread-Boston Brown, Graham, Vienna, Hot Rolls Corn and Graham Muffins Dry, Dipped or Milk Toast Griddle Cakes, Maple Syrup Tuesday, October 31, 1899 Trip of President MCKinley, his Cabinet and Guests. 31 Ocl: 1899.
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Old Timey Food @oldtimey.bsky.social · Jul 20
and I bet she smells delightful
WHAT NEXT? Mrs. James Ingram, of Battle Creek, Mich., has neither eaten nor drank since October, but manages to live by absorp- tion, taking baths in beef tea. Jewell County Republican Fri, Apr 15, 1881
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