Today,
all going as planned, we will be leaving Washington DC and travelling to New
York (by train) for a final few days before heading home to Australia.
It seems
appropriate to give you a railway menu today. Sadly, I have been unable to find
one for the North East route, but I hope you enjoy your vicarious meal anyway.
One of
the things that caught my eye on this menu was that it was folded and sealed,
with instructions “To Open … Tear or Cut Along This Edge.” A top-secret menu, only to be opened en
route? Or designed to send as a letter? A marketing exercise of some sort,
given that this was a convention train?
The menu
is dated June 17, 1948. The graphic on the front cover is of a
black waiter setting the table, which says a lot about the time, and still too
much about the present, does it not?
UNITED STATES TRAVEL AGENCY
CONVENTION SPECIAL TRAIN
- en route to -
AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS
CONVENTION
SAN FRANSISCO, CALIFORNIA
EN ROUTE via the MISSOURI PACIFIC
LINES
LUNCHEON
June 17, 1948
Chilled Tomato Juice
or
Soup: Consomme, Jardiniere
Selections:
Baked Sugar-Cured Ham, with
Spaghetti
or
Single Lamb Chop, Combination
Grill
Mashed Potatoes Buttered Baby Beets
Hearts of Lettuce, Thousand
Island Dressing
Assorted Breads.
Choice of:
Peach Diplomate
Figs in Syrup
Vanilla Ice Cream with Cake
American Cheese, Toasted
Ry-Crisp.
Coffee Tea, Hot or Iced Milk
There is
not much there to tempt you with as far as recipes go, is there? I do wonder
how the ham/spaghetti combo was served, but Alas, there is no clue in the menu.
I cannot find anything called Peach Diplomate, and I gave you two versions of ThousandIsland Dressing some time ago (here.)
It looks
like it will have to be the beets today – get babies if you can, and don’t
waste the greens!
Baked
Beets.
Beets
retain their sugary delicate flavor much better by baking instead of boiling;
turn often in the pan while in the oven, using a knife, as a fork will cause
the juice to flow; when done, remove skin, slice and season with butter, pepper
and salt, or if for pickle, slice into good cold vinegar. - Mrs. S. M. Guy
Beet Greens.
Wash young beets very clean, cut off tips of leaves,
looking over carefully to see that no bugs or worms remain, but do not separate
roots from leaves; fill dinner pot half full of salted boiling water, add beets, boil from half to
three-quarters of an hour; take out and drain in colander, pressing down with a
large spoon, so as to get out all thewater. Dish
and dress with butter, pepper, and salt if needed. Serve hot with vinegar
Buckeye Cookery, And
Practical Housekeeping: Compiled From Original Recipes.
Minneapolis, Minn.:
Buckeye Pub. Co., 1877
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