How can I find recipes from the 1920's?

Question

I am hosting a murder party and would like some food from the 1920's Chicago. I found some soda fountian recipes, but would like some dinner like recipes. Help!

Answer 1

Am having trouble finding much, but here aere some links for you to check out:

What did average Americans eat in the 1920s? Food historians tell us we had a sweet tooth, a taste for the exotic, and a well-developed sense of ordered creativity. Translation? Fruit cocktails, Pineapple upside-down cake and Jell-O molds. Tea sandwiches, fancy salads, and chafing-dish recipes were also "in." City kitchens were wired with electricity meaning foods could be safely refrigerated at home. General Electric (and other companies) published cooking brochures touting frozen foods and safe meat storage.

Conversely? Modern vegetarianism also began the 1920s. Peanuts were promoted as healthy protein alternatives to animal meat. Raw foods were likewise promoted. Ladies Aid Societies and Domestic Scientists worked hard to introduce balanced, nutritional meals to poor, laboring people and help newly arrived immigrants adjust to American markets.
- http://www.foodtimeline.org/fooddecades.html#popular

http://www.ghosttraveller.com/twenties.htm

The Innkeepers at Tuc Me Inn, watched a German friend make these cookies and copied down the recipe back in the early 20's.
http://www.lanierbb.com/recipes/data/ds329.html

1920 Rice Pudding
http://www.recipezaar.com/66146

Fannie Farmer's Boston Cooking School Cook Book [1918] is available full-text on the Web. The difference between this edition and 1923 copy is minimal. Chapter 41 provides suggested menus for all types of family meals.
http://bartleby.com/87/

Hope I have helped you, good luck!

Answer 2

OOOHHH!!! FUN!!! I want to come!!!

Here is what I found for you
Food of the 1920'sThe 1920’s marked the beginning of a new age in the food industry. With the invention of the refrigerator came the invention and popularization of canned and easy to prepare foods. Quick-cooking rolled oats, pancake mix and canned goods replaced the most often lavish more traditional home-cooked meals of the earlier decades. By the end of the ’20’s consumers could even purchase pre-sliced bread. People started trying new appetizers like shrimp patties and oyster cocktails along with new dishes such as Swiss steak, Billi-Bi, and chiffon pies. Ceasar salad was invented and fast became a family favorite, which in turn increased the popularity of salads in general. As always, cheese and bread served as staples of the French diet, and were most often eaten at every meal. In France, wine has always been the first choice in alcoholic beverages, but was closely followed by the Martini in the 1920’s as it came to represent simple elegance.

http://www.horton.ednet.ns.ca/staff/scottbennett/web/oldman/Paris1920/danielleweb/paris%20website/food.htm

This is an interesting website listing menu's from all the Nobel Banquets:

Menu from the Nobel Banquet 1920

MENU
Consommé bouquetière

Saumon froid niçoise

Selle de pré-salé renaissance

Asberges en branches

Parfait à l´abricots

Petits fours glacés

Friandises


VINS
Ch. Pontet Canet
Forster Traminer, 1893
Sparkling Hock
Fine Bual

http://nobelprize.org/award_ceremonies/banquet/menus/menu-1920.html

Here is a GREAT Cocktail Menu:

A 1920's Cocktail Party Menu
{ Platters }

Fruit and Cheese Platter; Olive Cheese Balls
A pyramid of olive pastries surrounded by a platter of cheeses and seasonal fruits. Cheese selection may include: Brie, Stilton, Wine Cheddar, Munster, and Swiss. Served with crackers.

Chicken of Liver Mousse
Chicken liver mousse pate shaped in the form of a chicken, garnished with bell peppers, olives, hard cooked eggs, and romaine lettuce. Served with crackers.

Cheese Straws

{ Butlered Hors d'oeuvres }

Seafood Vol-au-Vents
Puff pastry shells filled with shrimp and scallops in a rich cream sauce.

Potatoes Lorraines
New potatoes filled with sour cream, and garnished with caviar caviar .

Cucumber-Watercress Tea Sandwiches

Shrimp Toasts
Finely chopped shrimp mousseline on toast, fried.

http://www.choicecooking.com/cater/cater_menus1920.html


Have fun with your party!!!

Answer 3

Go to libraries and thrift shops, yard sale, etc. Look for the oldest cookbooks you can find.

Answer 4

build a time machine

Answer 5

online...