1930's party FOOD IDEAS???!
If you could please suggest Sandwich ideas and soup ideas tht would be great thanks!!
Answers: I'm planning a 1930's murder mystery dinner party. It is set in HOLLYWOOD and takes place at a premire party in a hollywood dinner hall. I was wanting to know what to serve it needs to be cheepish so please don't suggest caviare!!! I was thinking elegant sandwichs and soup. I wondered if Cresant sandwichs are apropriate I was told they didn't exist.
If you could please suggest Sandwich ideas and soup ideas tht would be great thanks!!
"Club Party Menu
Ice cream or punch, small cakes or sandwiches, coffee, butter balls, petit fours, mapel meringue cookies.
"Cocktail Parties
Beverages: tomato juice cocktail, Dubonnet and sherry, ice cubes, charged water, ginger ale, burbon, rye, and Scotch whiskey. Planner of hot appetizers: sardine snacks, rolled toast with mushrooms, rolled toast with asparagus, cheese puffs, deviled olives, chicken livers in bacon blankets, small canapes, sausage snacks or cocktail sausate in snack holder. Platter of cold appetizers: rainbow rye bread appetizer, canapes of smoked salmon, stuffed celery stalk with crabmeat, rolled sandwiches, filled with mock pate de foie gras or any spread, dried beef snacks.
"Afternoon Tea or Coffee
Shrimp aspic with Thousand Island Dressing, Sally Lunn, Himmel Trote or caramel tea rolls, poppyseed roll, coffee.
I always loved the pinwheel sandwiches that my friend's mom used to make. You buy bread that is sliced lengthwise instead of widthwise (normal way we cut it). You can use different fillings: tuna with celery, salmon mixed with sweet relish, cream cheese & maraschino cherries, peanut butter & banana, ham & cheese, egg salad, chicken salad. You can get white and/or whole wheat bread. Cut the crusts off. Spread the filling. Roll the bread up. Wrap rolls in waxed paper. Chill. Then slice them to get the pinwheel slices. My favourites were the cream cheese/cherry & tuna.
Sloppy Joes with Lipton noodle, pea or black bean soup mix. Finish with a Twinkie and wash it all down with the "Kosher" Coca Cola. If you had the money a Dagwood would be a great tasting sammie! These foods are era specific not just what a fav is-
Cheapish is about right since it was the depression era. Soups were in abundance, but lunch meats were also enjoyed: roast beef.
Here's a link for more ideas:
http://www.foodtimeline.org/fooddecades....
Well.....
you could start out with.............
1) Fruit cup
2) Soup
3) Crossant with like chicken salad or Turkey
4) Hot Fudge Sunde