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I found this article looking for info on Christmas dinners see http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...years-ago.html
Does anyone know articles about Christmas dinners in the home 100 years ago? Or any family stories hearsay anecdotes going back 100 years about Christmas dinner at home?
Thanks fro sharing, I remember seeing a similar article many years ago about Thanksgiving dinner 100 years or so. It wasn't much like we have now.
I can't go back 100 years, but I can remember about 70 years ago; As for the smoking, almost all the adults sat around the table after dinner smoking and enjoying either coffee or an after dinner drink.
We almost always had shrimp cocktail for starters, dinner was turkey, home made stuffing and I still do it totally homemade. Dad always did broccoli with hollandaise sauce. We would have some type of fruit salad and of course mashed potatoes, wonderful gravy, and canned yams. dessert was mince meat pie which I am not sure many of us ate and pumpkin pie. Of course the whipped cream was real, not some frozen topping.
On Thanksgiving the menu was similar but we ate at grandmas house; one think she served instead of fresh fruit salad was avocado salad in line jello. It was awful cause the avocados would turn brown. Oh and we can't forget the little individual jello molds everyone used.
Daddy always did the carving and everything was served family style. dad carved the bird at the table, not in the kitchen like some do.
Thanks fro sharing, I remember seeing a similar article many years ago about Thanksgiving dinner 100 years or so. It wasn't much like we have now.
I can't go back 100 years, but I can remember about 70 years ago; As for the smoking, almost all the adults sat around the table after dinner smoking and enjoying either coffee or an after dinner drink.
We almost always had shrimp cocktail for starters, dinner was turkey, home made stuffing and I still do it totally homemade. Dad always did broccoli with hollandaise sauce. We would have some type of fruit salad and of course mashed potatoes, wonderful gravy, and canned yams. dessert was mince meat pie which I am not sure many of us ate and pumpkin pie. Of course the whipped cream was real, not some frozen topping.
On Thanksgiving the menu was similar but we ate at grandmas house; one think she served instead of fresh fruit salad was avocado salad in line jello. It was awful cause the avocados would turn brown. Oh and we can't forget the little individual jello molds everyone used.
Daddy always did the carving and everything was served family style. dad carved the bird at the table, not in the kitchen like some do.
That would be a compliment except if you saw me, you would sure think I look old for 30s, Instead most people think I look young for being a few months under 80. I don't even have much grey hair and no, I don't color it, but one of these days I am going to wonder what color it used to be as it turns grey. Heck I can't remember my phone number 1/2 the time. YOu have made me smile this morning.
I really cannot remember our Christmas dinners, but I imagine they were roast beef and Yorkshire pudding, because that's what I always make.
Since we always had a Christmas party with a buffet on or around Christmas, what I remember most are snowflake rolls with crab salad in them. I have never been able to make crab salad that tasted like that.
If I had to guess, I would have thought there would have been more roasted goose back then.
I really cannot remember our Christmas dinners, but I imagine they were roast beef and Yorkshire pudding, because that's what I always make.
Since we always had a Christmas party with a buffet on or around Christmas, what I remember most are snowflake rolls with crab salad in them. I have never been able to make crab salad that tasted like that.
If I had to guess, I would have thought there would have been more roasted goose back then.
From the article I read about Thanksgiving dinner I think you are right: they did have goose, but remember 100 years ago was just during WW1 and people were leaving the farms, we were becoming a more industrial country and more people bought food at local grocery stores and the butcher shops. I am guessing turkey was still the number 1 source of protein on Christmas day. One thing we can be pretty sure of: they didn't use as many spices as we do today and they probably ate more foods with a lot of sugar.
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