GOOD FOOD.
GREAT HISTORY.
This formal Fourth of July dinner menu accompanied Adele K. Johnson's article "On Independence Day" in Good Housekeeping. The meal unfolds in multiple patriotic courses paired with literary quotations, followed on the page by selected recipes and service directions incorporating the red, white, and blue motif.
MENU
Potato Soup
“Give us a taste of your quality.”
Hamlet.
Roast Lamb Green Corn Baked Cauliflower
“It is not the quantity of the meat, but the cheerfulness of the guests, which makes a Feast; at the feast of the Centaurs, they ate with one hand and had their drawn swords in the other; where there is no peace there can be no Feast.”
Clarendon.
Raspberry Sherbet
“Cheerful looks make every dish a feast.”
Massinger.
Cabbage Salad
“The turnpike road to people's hearts, I find, Lies through their mouths, or I mistake mankind.”
Peter Pindar.
Cocoanut Pudding Strawberry Sauce
“Appetite comes with eating.”
Vanilla Ice Cream Angel Cake
“Now I am in a holiday humor.”
Shakespeare.
Strawberry Sirup
“Drink, pretty creature, drink.”
Wordsworth.
Bonbons
“War is honorable In those who do their native rights maintain, In those whose swords an iron barrier are Between the lawless spoiler and the weak.”
Joanne Baillie.
Music
“Is there a heart that Music cannot melt?”
Beattie.
Public rights statementThis material was originally published in the United States in 1900 and is believed to be in the public domain in the United States. Source: Good Housekeeping 1900-07: Vol 31 Iss 1, 1900-07-01, page n22, via https://archive.org/details/sim_good-housekeeping_good-housekeeping_1900-07_31_1. Repastory is not affiliated with or endorsed by Good Housekeeping 1900-07: Vol 31 Iss 1 or its current owner. Rights may vary outside the United States.
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publication context
The proud recipients discovered that they were invitations to a "Fourth of July Dinner."
Good Housekeeping 1900-07: Vol 31 Iss 1 · Page n21 · View context source ↗
Source evidence: The proud recipients discovered that they were invitations toa ‘‘ Fourth of July Dinner.’’
contributor
By Adele K. Johnson
Good Housekeeping 1900-07: Vol 31 Iss 1 · Page n21 · View context source ↗
Source evidence: By ADELE K. JOHNSON
menu guidance
was that of having patriotic music between the courses, by invisible musicians
Good Housekeeping 1900-07: Vol 31 Iss 1 · Page n22 · View context source ↗
Source evidence: was that of having patriotic music be- tween the courses, by invisible musi- cians
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