Welcome to A Retro Kitchen!: Some retro but easy menus

To follow up on what I mentioned yesterday, that I had found that lots of retro menus actually were not super time-consuming, here are a few samples of interesting ideas that do not necessarily have to take a long time, from autumn in the specified cookbooks...

for breakfast

with some ideas from the 1910 The Hotel St. Francis Cook Book by Victor Hirtzler

waffles or rolls with honeycomb honey & fresh fruit

coffee

for lunch

adapted from the 1905 Mrs. Rorer's Every Day Menu Book by Mrs. Sarah Tyson Rorer

macaroni and cheese with tomatoes

green salad

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baked bananas

for a snack

inspired by breakfast in the 1912 The Helping Hand Cookbook by Marion Harland and Christine Terhune Herrick

biscuit

fruit

tea

another snack possibility
inspired by a dessert with cider sauce I saw in a 1920s Australian cookbook

sweet cider

cheese

You'll find old and new ideas on this site...

I love playing with both food and history and am trying to combine these loves here and in various projects. My most recently published was a fun 3-volume set, which you can get free below, which speaks much of cuisine in a little known part of the world from earliest times to 700 CE....Speaking of old, this is a reincarnation of three old blogs, one shared with friends all over the world and called something like Our Favorite Food This Week, and then one called That Was Delicious that started my toying with retro food ideas, and then A History Writer in the Kitchen where I explored history more....I have kept many posts from those blogs, including many recipes I thought you might like.

Enjoy!