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Originally Posted by texasmesquite
Hi Gypsy,
Yes, I agree with you. A friend just sent me a 1944 (excellent condition) DAR Cookbook. It is totally amazing the food and recipes they cooked back then.
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A few years ago the museum I worked for was doing an exhibit about the WPA projects in our county during the Depression. As a sideline exhibit, I created some pamphlets that showed the beginnings of certain foods and kitchen gadgets from 1930 through 1940, and found some recipes for foods that people ate at the time.
Appliances such as pressure cookers and freezers were invented in the 1930s, and Clarence Birdseye invented the technique of freezing fruits and vegetables to be stored in the new freezers. Many foods that we eat today, such as Jello and Fritos, showed up for the very first time.
For our exhibit opening night celebration, I made 10 dozen Toll House Cookies to serve at the refreshment table. The Toll House Cookie recipe was invented in 1932 by a woman from New Haven, Connecticut, and I figured this would be a very cool (and easy) item to serve from the time period. We also offered copies of the original recipe for people to take home.
I had a blast coming up with all this information and reading various cookbooks from the period. We had about 100 copies of the pamphlets and the cookie recipe, and we ran out of them within the first hour of the exhibit opening. I think we copied a total of 500 pages of both items before the first weekend of the exhibit had passed. It seems that people were really interested in the way our ancestors lived and ate only a few generations in the past!
