Thanksgiving and Christmas Menus from What to Have for Dinner, 1905

Thanksgiving and Christmas Menus from What to Have for Dinner, 1905: Here are a Thanksgiving recipe and a Christmas dinner menu from Fanny Merritt Farmer’s 1905 menu-driven cookbook, What to Have for Dinner.

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What to Have for Dinner, Fanny Farmer, 1905: What to Have for Dinner, by Fanny Merritt Farmer. First edition, first printing. Published in 1905 by the Dodge Publishing Company, New York. Hard cover with no dust jacket. 271 pages. Back hinge has been is torn, but holding. We’ve mended it with clear librarian’s tape. Pages are all clean and clear. Cover has a cut in the fabric over the back board. Front cover and board in excellent vintage condition.
Many of the 19th and early 20th century culinary writers had menu-driven cookbooks. (No, not software-related, menus like what to have for dinner.) Part I. of What to Have for Dinner is about Family Dinners, with 24 dinner menus and the recipes for every dish following each menu. Part II. is Dinners for Occasions: Thanksgiving, Christmas, Lent, Easter, Warm Weather, and Emergency Dinners, with two menus for each occasion, plus recipes for every dish on the menus. Part III. is Company and Formal Dinners, with 10 company dinner menus with recipes and four menus with recipes for formal dinners.