Forgotten Foods

[Carrot Top]

Milk Toast.

[Carrot Top]

I just leafed through a book that seems to have just the sort of thing you are looking for, Jessica.

Four hundred and sixty-four pages of it, in fact.

Fashionable Food - Seven Decades of Food Fads

The book has many period-piece illustrations and well over 100 recipes, ranging from Blackened Redfish to "The Worst Salad of the Twenties" (Banana and Popcorn Salad). Useful as an idea source for theme parties and historical research on foods and their eras

From the Three P's Salad—that's peas, pickles, and peanuts—of the post-World War I era to the Fruit Cocktail and Spam Buffet Party loaf—all the rage in the ultra-modern 1950s, when cooking from a can epitomized culinary sophistication—Fashionable Food details the origins of these curious delicacies. In two chapters devoted to "exotic foods of the East," for example, Lovegren explores the long American love affair with Chinese food and the social status conferred upon anyone chic enough to eat pu-pu platters from Polynesia.

Full of quixotic fare, loaded with recipes of interest.

[insomniac]

ah Karen, not milk toast but bread soaked in milk with a sprinkling of sugar if we were poorly

not to mention bread and dripping...did you do that in the States?, spreading the fat and jellied meat juices from the Sunday roast(kept in a special jar), on a slice of bread with salt and pepper. (must admit I still keep such a jar )

[Carrot Top]

Yummy. My mother was a non-cook, so none of that stuff for me growing up, but I do know those who have fond memories of things like that.

Now you are making me want marrow on toast.

[insomniac]

exactly like marrow on toast

[Reefpimp]

I like marrow on toast. It's like driving at night with the headlights off, or something.

I haven't seen turtle soup in a coon's age. And it's not like there's a lack of mudturkles these days.

[insomniac]

I like marrow on toast.  It's like driving at night with the headlights off, or something.

Reef, you have a cache of amazing similes in you....I must smoke more