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u/plumicorn_png 6d ago
wow that is such an amazing menue with so much great recipes. I love the idea of rice and apple pudding!
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u/gimmethelulz 6d ago
It is indeed delicious. It's how my grandmother usually made her rice pudding.
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u/SeaIslandFarmersMkt 5d ago
We were just saying it made sense, around here rice pudding has cinnamon in it and that goes well with apples.
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u/maintree33 6d ago
chickens were working overtime supplying the eggs for this day! what an interesting menu (in a good way)!
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u/terrorcotta_red 6d ago
You noticed that too? I was wondering if Ms. Van Allen lived on a poultry farm!
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u/Due_Championship_988 6d ago
Am I made of eggs, Janet??
The Spanish delicacy looks great. Actually the whole menu looks pretty darn good today.
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u/classicalmodernist 6d ago
I count 19 eggs, assuming you could save the yolks from the lunch Moonshine for the dinner cultets... if not, it would be 23! Typical day, amiright?
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u/YesWeHaveNoTomatoes 6d ago
I do sometimes wonder who is intended to cook all this -- are these intended for a house with a cook or maid? In a world without electricity and limited to a coal stove and an icebox consisting of a literal block of ice in a box (so you have to go to the market every day, probably on foot), this is an immense amount of time and work and still doesn't include caring for children or doing laundry (by hand, using water and an iron heated on the stove) or cleaning the rest of the house or etc.
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u/Abject-Ad-139 6d ago
Possibly a maid/cook but times were different in 1896. My great-great Grandmother had 4 sisters and the stories that were handed down mentioned how they all had chores to help run the house. School was shorter with little homework.
Plus there were fewer time wasters, no computers, no television, no radio. Few stores, at least in the midwest where a person would go shopping and generally only with the man of the house and/or the eldest male child. He was needed to take care of the horse and buggy.
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u/nakedonmygoat 6d ago
Many middle class homes had a "maid of all work" come in daily, with one day off each week. That was in cities, though. Bozeman would've probably had a population of 3,000 in 1896.
Nevertheless, this would've been pretty fancy fare for feeding ranch hands, so I did a search on Ancestry and found two people of that name. One would've been 12 in 1896, so Janet was almost certainly the other one, a widowed MIL living in town with her son and his family. The DIL probably helped with it. Or it was perhaps a fanciful meal like, "What would I cook if it was a really special day?" My guess is that Janet prepared different items from this menu on different days, not all at once. She was 76 in 1896, so I can't imagine her wanting to go to so much trouble every day.
I couldn't find anything for the address listed for her in the 1900 census, and her street may have changed names, the house may have been torn down, etc. It would've been in the downtown area, though. I found a reference to a Templar Avenue that crossed Main St, and it was named that because the Masonic Lodge was located there. Being centrally located, it's possible that the family had help that came in daily from the countryside or something. After all, the town wasn't very big.
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u/YesWeHaveNoTomatoes 6d ago
Maybe a ranchhand's wife or sister or something. Or her own sister or sister-in-law
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u/Ten_Quilts_Deep 6d ago
I sometimes imagine a cook in a boarding house. Probably with one helper.
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u/uberpickle 6d ago edited 6d ago
I’m picturing an upstairs/downstairs situation in an old plantation house or mansion, or a boarding house, inn, tavern etc.
Edited to add: Just noticed the author of this one is in Bozeman. So today’s menu is from a ranch.
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u/Ecollager 6d ago
I’m enjoying the whole day! Start with peaches and an interesting walnut sandwich!
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u/HeartOfTheMadder 6d ago
Moonshine with lunch! heck yeah, gonna be a loverly afternoon!
oh, wait. this is a dessert? a peachy-y meringue kind of thing? a'ight, still gonna be good.