Recipe: Theodore Roosevelt and Thomas Jefferson's Favorite foods - Information for Kayla
Recipe Collections Vintage Cookbooks: A sampling of presidents' favorites
Thursday, November 02, 2000
By Alice Demetrius Stock, Post-Gazette Staff Writer
"...It wasn't too difficult to obtain information about 20th century dinners, but for earlier administrations, researchers scoured contemporary accounts of White House menus from newspapers, letters and journals. They also studied period manuscripts and cookbooks to compile what they believed to be the "favorite recipes of ... the presidents of the United States."
For example, a favorite supper at Thomas Jefferson's home, Monticello, was boned and stuffed capon, green pea puree, plum pudding with hard sauce and wine jelly (a wine-flavored "jello"). Jefferson (1801-09) was intensely interested in food, enjoyed his kitchen garden and collected recipes from many places. He made French vanilla ice cream popular in this country.
Theodore Roosevelt (1901-09) ate heartily: roast suckling pig, Indian (corn meal) pudding and clove cake were his favorites while his cousin, Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933-45), was content with crab soup, boiled salmon with egg sauce and pecan pie."
Thursday, November 02, 2000
By Alice Demetrius Stock, Post-Gazette Staff Writer
"...It wasn't too difficult to obtain information about 20th century dinners, but for earlier administrations, researchers scoured contemporary accounts of White House menus from newspapers, letters and journals. They also studied period manuscripts and cookbooks to compile what they believed to be the "favorite recipes of ... the presidents of the United States."
For example, a favorite supper at Thomas Jefferson's home, Monticello, was boned and stuffed capon, green pea puree, plum pudding with hard sauce and wine jelly (a wine-flavored "jello"). Jefferson (1801-09) was intensely interested in food, enjoyed his kitchen garden and collected recipes from many places. He made French vanilla ice cream popular in this country.
Theodore Roosevelt (1901-09) ate heartily: roast suckling pig, Indian (corn meal) pudding and clove cake were his favorites while his cousin, Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933-45), was content with crab soup, boiled salmon with egg sauce and pecan pie."
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