This section is from the book "Practical Cooking And Serving", by Janet McKenzie Hill. Also available from Amazon: Practical Cooking and Serving: A Complete Manual of How to Select, Prepare, and Serve Food [1919].
We yield Thee unfeigned thanks and praise, as for all Thy mercies, so especially for the returns of seed-time and harvest, and for crowning the year with Thy goodness in the increase of the ground, and the gathering in of the fruits thereof. -Book or Common Prayer.
Consommé a la Royal, Celery.
Garnish: Sausage Cakes and Italian Chestnuts.
Escalloped Oysters.
Mashed Potatoes, Sweet Potato and Almond Croquettes.
Sweet Pickled Peaches, Gooseberry Jelly.
Cauliflower, Hollandaise Sauce.
Cranberry Frappé.
Ginger Ice Cream. Hot Apple Pie.
Neufchâtel Cheese, Crackers.
Black Coffee.
"Some hae meat and canna eat, And some hae nane who want it, But we hae meat and we can eat And sae the Lord be thankit."
Clam Chowder, Pickles.
Wild Turkey Stuffed with Chestnuts.
Roast Spare Rib (Pork). Pumpkin Sauce.
Succotash. Mashed Turnips. Onions.
Mashed Potatoes. Cold Slaw.
Boston Brown Bread. Rye Bread.
Pumpkin Pie, Apple Pie, Cheese.
Thanksgiving Pudding. Fruit. Cider Cup.
Heap on more wood! the wind is chill;
But let it whistle as it will,
We'll keep our Christmas merry still.
- Sir Walter Scott.
Consommé with Chestnut Timbales and Turnip Balls.
Fillets of Flounder, with Blanched Oysters, Hollandaise Sauce.
Potato Balls. Hothouse Cucumbers.
Young Goose Roasted.
Chantilly Apple Sauce with Horseradish.
Celery, with Brown Sauce.
Tomato Punch.
Roast Duck.
Plum Pudding, Brandy Sauce. Mince Pie.
Caramel Ice Cream. Black Coffee. Cheese Bouchées.
Colonial colors, buff and blue, or National colors, red, white and blue Blue china with yellow daffodils or Red and white tulips in a blue bowl.
Oysters. (Scalloped or Creamed in cases or shells.)
Cold Turkey, Cranberry Sauce.
Celery-and-Hickory Nut Salad.
Boston Baked Beans Salad
Garnish: Tomato Jelly and Celery.
Individual Pumpkin Pies.
Blueberry Sherbet (canned berries).
Maple Sugar Bonbons.
Popcorn Balls.
Salted Peanuts.
"Daffodils,
That come before the swallow dares, and takes The winds of March with beauty."
Cream of Spinach. Clear Green Turtle Soup.
Pimolas.
Brook Trout, Fried, Sauce Tartare. Rye Bread and Butter. Sandwiches.
Potato Croquettes (Egg-shaped), Peas in Cream Sauce in Centre.
Asparagus in Puff-paste Patties, Egg Yolks.
Crown of Lamb, Mint Sauce.
Bernhardt Potatoes. Banana Fritters, Orange Sauce.
Broiled Squabs or Stall-fed Quail.
Lettuce and Tomato, Sifted Yolk of Egg. French Dressing.
Cream Chee se, Bar-le-Duc Currants (white).
Pine apple and Orange Sherbet, Egg Shapes in Spun Sugar Nests.
Assorted Cakes. Candied Mint Leaves. Candied Orange Peel. Black Coffee.
She's beautiful, and therefore to be wooed; She is a woman, therefore to be won.
- King Henry VI.
Down on your knees, And thank Heaven, fasting, for a good man's love.
- As You Like It.
Floral Decorations: White Sweet Peas and Maidenhair Ferns.
Strawberries, au naturel.
Halibut Palmettes. Hothouse Cucumbers.
Peas in White Sauce. Rolls.
Baked Fillets of Chicken-breast, Mushroom Sauce.
Lettuce and Asparagus Tip Salad,
Iced Mayonnaise.
Fruit Ices in Spun Sugar Nests.
Assorted Cakes. Bonbons.
Coffee.
 
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