Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. The January, 1920 issue of American Cookery magazine contained several breakfast menus. We should all pick a day and fix ourselves codfish balls for breakfast and post the results. Breakfast menus include: “Pineapple juice, baked ham-and-egg sandwiches, quick-fried apple rings, coffee, and cocoa” for the teens; and “Orange juice, help-yourself cereal tray (assorted ready-to-eat cereals and milk); Gen’s ham and eggs, buttered toast, and coffee” for guests.
Having said that, I also know that the burdens of domestic labor were gigantic. I liked it with hot milk occasionally but I prefer cereal of most kinds with cold milk. Does anyone remember the old Maytag commercials where the hound dog faced repairman was the “Loneliest Man in Town?” That’s how I feel most times when I read the comments HERE because so few people have had my life experiences. of having Codfish Balls for Breakfast. LOL. We had a Smoke house on the farm where we smoked all the fish we caught. It’s one extreme to another, but honestly, just give me an excuse to eat “creamed potatoes” for breakfast!! Your body doesn't know how to handle them and either purges them or worse yet stores them where they become oxidants that cause problems in the long run. The Me Decade was all about brunch, and brunch was all about quiche. I’d eat fish balls for dinner but not breakfast, and probably not cod which is a pretty tasteless fish. As was typical in the 1920's, the focus was on food being digestible, a result of the work of Dr. Gautier in France who really started unraveling the mystery of calories and food nutrition. Light Breakfast 1 sounds good to me, but I think I’ll pass on any breakfast that includes cod fish balls. Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. When I was student in England, the cafeteria served fish for breakfast. Somehow I’m guessing it was the women and girls in most homes that made the breakfasts (though a cook sounds very nice). I’m an outdoor worker, and my first thought was that anyone who tried to serve me codfish balls would be told, “Let’s try that again.” On the other hand, it might not be all that odd. Codfish balls: https://www.food.com/recipe/salt-cod-fish-balls-233194.
Only the British films serve tea! Cold meatloaf or pork roast with maybe some veggies on homemade bread. It was eaten hot here, too, by some people. Bacon came back with a vengeance in the early years of the twenty-first century, and the novelty still hasn’t worn off. Commercial bottling of orange juice was limited to the areas where oranges were grown. In some parts of the continent, the traditional diet features milk, curd and whey products. I’m certain that my father’s family never had domestic help.
Lunch was usually a sandwich, sometimes made of leftovers from the night before. Interesting breakfasts from light to heavy. I may have to look for a hundred-year-old recipe for them. The breakfast menus are quite interesting! . Since many young women (and young men) did not go to high school a hundred years ago, I wonder if some of the young women worked as domestics for a very low wage for a few years prior to marriage. Thank you for taking the time to explain. The menus ranged for very light breakfast options to calorie-laden options. After all, one of my favorite brunch dishes at a Galveston café is a version of eggs Benedict that substitutes lump crabmeat for ham.
If you couldn’t store fresh, than their was pickled, salted and smoked fish to eat, daily. During the 1950s, Eggo Waffles provided a hot breakfast option from the toaster that wasn’t toast, Dunkin’ Donuts and Denny’s both launched, and popular new products included Jif Peanut Butter and Lender’s Bagels. That is a heavy breakfast for the business folks! A 1920's House Feature - The Breakfast Nook BREAKFAST in many American homes is apt to be a helter-skelter affair in which the head of the household makes a mad dash to devour some food before rushing to the train or car that will get him to the office at the scheduled time. Leftovers can make a good breakfast. 1920 marks the 1st time that America was 50% rural and 50% urban in that year. It’s nice to hear that you enjoyed these old menus. After the war, consumption of bacon, eggs, and cheese came back with a vengeance. By 1920 there was a focus on lighter breakfasts for those who did less strenuous labor. Perhaps a cook paid for with the earnings of that business man and business woman! . Now, finding breakfast cereals which are the equivalent of what was available back in the 1920's can be tricky indeed. Remember that old idiom: Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. The ad included the following serving suggestion: “Simply heat the biscuits in the oven a few moments to restore crispness, then pour hot milk over them adding a little cream and salt, or sweeten to suit the taste.”. TEACH a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime! Fun post, Sheryl. It’s a nice simple menu that still works today. I’m always amazed by people who can do well on a light breakfast with no protein in it. Change ), You are commenting using your Google account. There was a reason that unmarried people continued to live with their parents, why young women looked forward to moving away from their parent’s (work intensive) homes into married life, and why young men who lived outside of their parent’s homes lived collectively, such as in boarding houses. Egg McMuffins were also introduced during this decade, ushering in the era of the fast food breakfast, and this was also the decade of sugary cereals, including Fruity Pebbles and long-forgotten ones like Fruit Brute and Crazy Cow. As for the rest of the items they speak for themselves. From this we have a shift from the heavy English/Scottish style breakfasts of the late 1800's to a more " And if you didn’t fish, every major city had mountains of fish for sale, again for cheap, because we had not over-fished our oceans! Although its origins are mildly hazy, the common story about the … Smoothies, green tea, whole grain bread, artisanal cheese, Vitamin Water, Kashi cereal, energy drinks, and McGriddles were all also super-popular breakfast options in the aughts. . Sweet ‘N Low also emerged as a calorie-free sugar replacement for coffee. Even if you were the poorest family in town, you could fish with only a pole, a line, and patience! Yeah, American’s are weird that way. I can’t quite picture codfish balls for breakfast, but if someone offered my some, I’d definitely give them a try. It was very weird, but the Spaghetti-o’s were there everyday. but not for breakfast.
I had salmon, trout, perch, sardines, and kippers for breakfast every single morning! Up until 1920, America had been mostly rural, so anyone eating these listed breakfasts would have been born in the 1890’s or early 1900. I love both corn mush ( fried) and figs ….but together? Those so called vitamins are nothing more than chelated chemical impostors garnered from industrial waste and the salt mining industries. I might try them. Of course, this was the era of suffragettes, so maybe women were actually beginning to become business women. Better yet it has no added vitamins. If your ancestry was British, Scottish, or Scandinavian, having FISH for breakfast was as normal as a Bacon/Egg McMuffin is today! Fruit Cocktail. Fish for breakfast has never suited me, but a lot of Brits eat kippers for breakfast, so it’s kind of a ‘thing’ here. I think I will pass on the codfish balls. We eat too much sugar in the country which has been the true dietary problem for decades, not fat consumption, sugar consumption.
Thanks for finding the recipe. Photo Modified: Flickr / Stacy / CC BY 4.0.
I think it was Ancestry.com that had an article some years ago about the difference between the present and a century ago, and one of the things they listed was something like “they had help” which asserted that maids and house help was common. I like to have an egg or other protein for breakfast. I only eat something very light, preferring to eat breakfast foods later in the day. So would I – The light breakfast menus seem too light and the others to heavy. Sometimes pancakes. Cholesterol became a four-letter word in this decade as well, so consumption of bacon and eggs also began to decline. Breakfast was eggs, bacon, toast or hot oatmeal or cream of wheat. This recipe does not convince me that I want to try Codfish Balls. It’s fascinating what different things people need to get the day off to a good start. Creamed potatoes for breakfast work for me. Breakfast is my favorite meal so the “light” versions would not work. Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. But this crucial first meal of the day has really evolved over the years, with new innovations and trends transforming breakfast faster than you probably realize. In those cultures, FISH for breakfast is as normal and desired as Bacon is in America. A type of porridge is most commonly eaten.
There’s so many scenes in old movies that spend an obscene amount of screen time talking about coffee, pouring coffee, offering coffee, or preparing coffee. Both those breakfasts seem heavy to me!
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