This is the set of Metlox Traditions dinnerware that I got in the 1970s when we were first married. (No, I didn't overprint my dishes with a quilt pattern :)...its a reflection of the Lone Star quilt that hangs on the opposite wall!)
Metlox, a California pottery, was founded in the 1920s and is still going strong today. The Traditions pattern first came out in the 1960s in white, the rose color came out in the 1970s both for this pattern and others.
A simple dinner or luncheon table setting...now what could be the menu?
Hmm, maybe I can get an idea from this 1936 cookbooklet from the Philadelphia Inquirer.
How's this?
Grapefruit for a first course? Anyone else remember grapefruit for a first course? I do...my Mom served this all the time! Sometimes she would add brown sugar and melt the sugar under the broiler,mmmm...once she got an idea from a magazine-pour red wine on the grapefruit-we thought that was disgusting! but usually it was just a plain half grapefruit, sometimes pink, sometimes yellow...always hard for a kid to eat with good table manners!
Or this? Vegetarians in the 1930s! Imagine that :)
Again, grapefruit!
Again, grapefruit!
The Mushroom and Egg Cutlet is actually a variation of a very old recipe for egg croquets that appears at least as early as 1824 in Mary Randolph's The Virginia Housewife (wish I had the original :), alas only a facsimile!) I have actually made the egg croquets for our vegetarian DSIL...now I'll try this "updated" version!
Hope you enjoyed this and maybe got some dinner ideas too!...just serve celery as a first course!
