Period Breakfast menu

[Sheltowee]

Sign me up for a hit of that calf's foot and wine jelly

 

[Allyn]

I can remember going to the Publix deli and my mother buying a half pound or so of boiled cold cow tongue . We ate it with mustard cheese on rye bread yummy … I've had pickled pigs feet and smoked salmon. We used to also have fried salt mackerel and grits for breakfast.

Ah, the childhood memories of the local meat market, with whole cow tongue on a tray, along with other offerings that both repulsed and fascinated me at the same time. We certainly have gotten finicky!

 

[Dan Kohli]

Breakfast wines?!

Those are the best types of wines. They supposedly have a hint of coffee. ; )

 

[Stryker65]

I should say...I've had stale bread and liked it, since it was crunchy when toasted.

 

[JerryD]

And this was just the breakfast menu…

I was thinking the same thing when I realized this is what they laid out for breakfast! Pray the Lord you aren't hung over....

 

[7thWisconsin]

We were in Daytona Beach. Daddy was a depression baby (1931) but he never made us eat chicken feet. Sardines and eggs with onion yes . I've had turtle stew but not terrapin, bet it would have been good!!

I've eaten sardines and eggs. Never again! Turtle soup is awesome! Unbelievably hard to prepare, preparing the turtle for cooking, but really good!

 

[JeffBrooks]

Most of these we would call dessert wines. The Sauterne is a very heavy, very sweet, (and very expensive) white wine. Incidentally, I have actually had Sauterne in Baltimore.

Not at all of them, though. Chateau Margaux and Chateau Lafite were, and still are, robust red wines. And today one would have to fork over at least several hundred dollars for a bottle.

And how was the Sauterne?

 

[JerryD]

Not at all of them, though. Chateau Margaux and Chateau Lafite were, and still are, robust red wines. And today one would have to fork over at least several hundred dollars for a bottle.

And how was the Sauterne?

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[Reconstructed Rebel]

Ah, the childhood memories of the local meat market, with whole cow tongue on a tray, along with other offerings that both repulsed and fascinated me at the same time. We certainly have gotten finicky!

Almost all fresh meat and vegetables and fruits are irradiated today to keep them from spoiling as fast. Back when every neighborhood had its local butcher who did his own work, fresh, refrigerated beef would only last a few days before it had to be eaten.

The butcher sold every little bit of the cow. Oxtail soup, anyone?

 

[Mississippian1861]

And how was the Sauterne?

It was good. A very good after dinner option.

 

[redbob]

It certainly beats the Cracker Barrel.

 

[G Low]

I've eaten sardines and eggs. Never again! Turtle soup is awesome! Unbelievably hard to prepare, preparing the turtle for cooking, but really good!

Good to know you @7thWisconsin never met anyone outside of my circle of friends who have had sardines and eggs. I cook it for breakfast when we were camping and trout fishing, just to keep it going!!

 

[Belfoured]

Welcome to Barnun's Hotel, Baltimore, 1863. Breakfast is served. I'll take some cold tongue, stewed tripe, and oh..., yes, some stale bread. Yummy.

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That's a great find. Items like this shed light on daily life in that era. Which raises the interesting question about all the various kinds of meat available. Since they didn't have herds/flocks in the back yard, they must have had some ice arrangements?

 

[G Low]

Almost all fresh meat and vegetables and fruits are irradiated today to keep them from spoiling as fast. Back when every neighborhood had its local butcher who did his own work, fresh, refrigerated beef would only last a few days before it had to be eaten.

The butcher sold every little bit of the cow. Oxtail soup, anyone?

When we were kids we were playing around the freezer locker/butcher shop and found a Texas long horn cow head. It was skined and looked really scary. We got it and put it in the middle of Hwy 11 in downtown Social Circle, Ga. Then we hid and watched the cars slowdown and look at it . Fun times, kids nowadays don't know how to have fun.

 

[Reconstructed Rebel]

Since they didn't have herds/flocks in the back yard, they must have had some ice arrangements?

My impression is that in the 19th century they kept beef, mutton, etc on the hoof until it was slaughtered to be used immediately. The only preservative for meat was salt. Ice was generally used to keep drinks cold - not to preserve meat. Farmers brought livestock into the cities every day. I welcome corrections to that belief if I am wrong about that.

 

[Allyn]

The butcher sold every little bit of the cow. Oxtail soup, anyone?

Does anyone remember liver and lights?

 

[G Low]

I was thinking the same thing when I realized this is what they laid out for breakfast! Pray the Lord you aren't hung over....

A glass of breakfast wine and you'd be good to go.

 

[Belfoured]

Lots of food. But many not my taste.

Some of it makes the rattlesnake I ate working at a ranch one summer look like the better breakfast option. (In all honesty it was pretty good and I had it a few times). Choosing between that and "tripe" in its various forms, I think I'd go with the rattler every time.

 

[G Low]

Does anyone remember liver and lights?

I've heard of liver and lights(lungs) but haven't tried them. Had chitlins and mountain oysters but not that.

 

[nc native]

Breakfast wines?!

Not for me. Back in my younger and wilder days, I went to my girlfriend at the time's apartment as hungry as I could be because I had skipped breakfast. I went into the kitchen and saw a box of cherry Pop Tarts. Then I needed something to wash them down with so I looked in the refrigerator and only saw a bottle of White Zinfandel in there. I got a glass of the White Zinfandel and a couple of packs of the pop tarts and preceded to eat breakfast. I was in the bathroom regurgitating within about thirty minutes. My girlfriend got a good laugh out of that.