I need major help with a U.S. History project on the 1900s-1920s?

Question

i need to find a typical dinner menu from that time period... the defining characterisitics of a loose girl or a fast girl....... and i need words of wisdom from some one who lived through that time period.... any help is greatly appreciated... thanks

Answer 1

DINNER:Every Womans Cook Book, Mrs. Chas. F. Moritz [Cupples & Leon:New York:1926] devotes several pages of its beverage chapter to making wine at home. Here the 1920s cook found instructions for blackberry, strawberrry, grape and cherry wine, sherry, sauterne and plum liquor and home. These wines were generally fermented for 10 days. We have no idea how strong (% alcohol) they would have been. This book also has a recipe for brandied peaches (without brandy), claret punch (with 1/2 gallon of claret wine). and Welsh rarebit (1/2 cup cream, ale or beer).

The 1923 edition of Fannie Merritt Farmer's The Boston Cooking School Cook Book, lists 2 tablespoons brandy in a recipe for rich coffee cake

The President's fruit cake lists grape juice as an ingredient, no mention of alcohol.

"Brandy used to be a common addition to fruit cakes. The taste cooked out, but it gave richness to the cake, and probably added to the keeping quality. In the recipes here given, cider, lemon juice or other fruit juice is substituted for it."


FAST GIRL:Yet, by the end of the decade, advertisements treated the matter as settled. The flapper had become the "modern young woman," whose "gay philosophy" shared with Nietzsche's a repudiation of "traditional" or "old-fashioned" ideas as forms of slavery. One can hardly imagine very many contemporary readers of "Modernizing Mother" caught the allusion to Nietzsche. A much higher percentage would have recognized in the use of "repression" a reference to Freud. But all were supposed to respond to the notion of a "sensible freedom." And all were to appreciate the daughter's essential goodness in sharing her freedom with her formerly repressed mother. There is, in the ad campaign, no explicit reference to sexuality. That had been at the heart of the controversy over the "flapper." But, look again at "Don't Fuss, Mother, This Isn't So Fast." In the parlance of the day, a girl who was "fast," broke the sexual rules. She not only flirted and petted. She went further. Mothers and daughters had for years argued about whether wearing skirts at the knee, rolling stockings below the knee, taking off your corset at a dance, smoking cigarettes, using rouge and lipstick made the daughter look "fast." How many of those daughters had said "Don't Fuss, Mother"? What they wanted to do wasn't "so fast."



WORDS OF WISDOM:Jane Addams (1860-1935)
This social reformer devoted her life to helping the urban poor. In 1889, she founded the Hull House in a Chicago slum, with programs such as day care and adult education. One of the first settlement houses in America, Hull House inspired many others across the nation. Although she was widely criticized for her opposition to World War I, Addams later became one of the most admired activists of the time, winning the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1931.

Answer 2

People that age have no idea how to use a computer. So unless my old Aunt Edna happens to be sitting next to me when i read your question ----
But good luck with your project anyway -- sounds like a tough one.