Like many of these recipes I cover on my blog, I did not grow up with Tetrazzini. I know I would see it pop up in magazines and across the internet after Thanksgiving as a way to use up those turkey leftovers. I might be in the minority but I quite like Thanksgiving leftovers just … Continue reading The History of Chicken or Turkey Tetrazzini
Seeing as there were no starters for this menu, let us get right down to the main course. In case you didn't read yesterday's post, I made a Thanksgiving meal from a 1939 menu I found in a newspaper. On the menu were turkey, dressing, giblet gravy, orange sweet potatoes, creamed onions with cream cheese, … Continue reading 1939 Thanksgiving Menu: The Main Course
Last year I followed a Thanksgiving Menu from the 1970s and the year before a Thanksgiving Menu from 1963. Seeing this is now a tradition on my blog, I decided to do it again. For the past two years, I picked menus from cookbooks which were Southern Living: Holiday cookbook and Better Homes and Garden Birthday and Family Celebrations. This year I … Continue reading 1939 Thanksgiving Menu
I had some leftover homemade Thousand Island dressing from The History of Thousand Island Dressing post and I decided to try a sandwich that kept popping up in 1970s newspapers during the research. So I did a quick search for the catchy named "Lucky Seven" sandwich which is aptly named due to the fact it uses … Continue reading The Lucky Seven Sandwich
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