This is an indexed Masterpost of all the recipes that appear in the Recipe Wednesday posts from @steve-rogers-new-york. Unlike the previous Recipe Wednesday masterlist, this version is ordered by the recipes themselves. Each recipes is grouped and sorted based on food type, then linked to the post they appear in.
The below are the real period recipes that have appeared in the weekly Recipe Wednesday posts, each taken from the Brooklyn Daily Eagle — a local newspaper that would have been accessible to Steve, his mother, and Bucky during their time in Brooklyn. The recipes range in content from dinner meals, snack, condiments, and desserts — and feature an image of the recipe as it appeared in the newspaper, a link to the digitised copy of the paper, and transcriptions of the recipes.
Snacks
- Cheese and Horseradish (Sandwich)
- Hot Open Cheese
- Individual Loaves
- Luncheon or Supper Sandwich
- Oyster Sandwiches
- Peanut Butter, Bacon and Pickle (Sandwich)
- Sweet Mustard Pickle and Egg (Sandwich)
Salads
Jello Salads
Jellied Meat Dishes
Rolls and Breads
Meals
- Baked Beans with Sliced Beef
- Beef and Vegetable Chowder
- Belgian Mushrooms
- Breaded Eggs
- Casserole of Carrots and String Beans
- Cauliflower with Butter Sauce
- Creamed Mushrooms and Peas
- Curried Rice Croquettes With Tomato Sauce
- Dumplings
- Frankfurters with Egg Noodles
- Fried Egg Noodles
- Hot Lamb with Mushroom Sauce
- Kidney Stew on Spaghetti
- Macaroni and Cheese
- Mexican Corn in Ramekins
- Potato Omelet
- Scalloped Supper Dish
- Spinach Souffle
- Stuffed Beets
Roasts and Other Meat Dishes
- Beef Shank With Noodles
- Crown of Lamb, St. Valentine
- Ham Loaf
- Pork Chops with Orange Stuffing
- Roast Stuffed Breast of Lamb
- Stuffed Meat Ring
- Stuffed Roast Shoulder of Lamb
- Veal Birds
Fish and Seafood Dishes
Sauces and Stuffings
Desserts and Puddings
- Apple Tapioca
- Brownies
- Cherry Pie Filling
- Date Nut Pudding on Ice Cream
- Florida Fruit Cup
- Honey Cakes
- Hot Chocolate Sauce
- Ice Cream Meringues
- Lemon Pudding
- Lime Strawberry Sponge
- Macaroon Custard
- Macaroon Pudding
- Meringues
- Orange Chiffon Pudding
- Peach Betty
- Rhubarb Chiffon Pie
- Trifle
Cakes
- Favorite Devil’s Food Cake with Divinity Frosting
- Pancakes
- Pound Cake
- Sour Milk Chocolate Cake
- Spanish Almond Layer Cake
- Spice Cake
- Victory Spice cake
Candy
Beverages
Last Updated: 30 July 2016
I LOVE THIS YOU CAN’T KNOW HOW MUCH. So much of the kinds of things they ate are like SO DIFFERENT than now, and I can just vaguely have some kind of long-distance-call telephoning to this in my own life, when you know, like, fruit cups with no fresh fruit in them and sort of eggs and noodles TOGETHER were still served! Like, NYC diners still served this food for a long long time afterwards and just the names of the dishes bring me right back there I mean the upside down cakes and the Stroganoffs, ffs. I think I posted at some point some of the real menus for the 20th century limited; so awesome. Thank you @steve-rogers-new-york!
Tag: 1940s
Hi, I’m Lena and I really love your blog. I have a meta question that I’m not sure where to start looking for the answer. I don’t know if you’ve researched this, but if Bucky’s family had been slightly well-off, maybe lower middle class, where in Brooklyn would they have lived? I’m working on my Stucky Big Bang and I’m writing that Bucky’s mother was Jewish and his father was Catholic, but that he was still raised Jewish. There’s so much Yiddish in my story! I’d really appreciate the help! Best.
Hello friend! Thank you so much, I’m glad you enjoy it :). My apologies for the delayed reply – I recently moved across country and it’s been a time dealing with all the real life stuff.
So first off, yay for Stucky Big Bang and yay for interfaith Barnes family! That’s the way I write them myself, so I didn’t have to research much to answer this question. Yay for all the Yiddish! Do you speak it?? That is super cool, and I am all for multilingual fics. I hope you will send me the link to your story once posted! I would love to read it.
Families immigrating to New York during the relevant time period (you’re most likely talking about direct or first generation immigrant families, as New York City saw its largest wave of immigration between the 1870s through 1924) were likely to spend their first few years in Manhattan, and then make for their respective ethnic enclaves in the outer boroughs (Brooklyn and Queens, primarily, but many made questionable life decisions and moved to Long Island and New Jersey). Jewish families mostly made that trip from the Lower East Side out to Brooklyn neighborhoods like Crown Heights (what was known in the 1930s as Eastern Parkway), Flatbush, Brownsville (probably more lower class than middle), or Williamsburg (definitely more religiously orthodox than secular).
As far as what their homes might have looked like, you’re looking at brownstones in Crown Heights and Flatbush, and tenements in Brownsville and Williamsburg. You can find links to relevant images and descriptions here, and more generally in my master meta post.
Please allow me to point you to some more specific resources! 1940s New York is one of my favorite websites, because it gives a great breakdown for what neighborhoods were called at the time, what they looked like, and the demographic breakdown block by block. To give you some context about how far that median rent could stretch, please check out this excellent meta post.
I have some light reading for you regarding Jewish enclaves, and Brownsville specifically. If you’re looking for some more in depth resources, I recently purchased Jews of Brooklyn and Brownsville: the Jewish Years myself (I can’t vouch 100%, as I haven’t had time to read through them entirely, but they are highly rated). Jews of Brooklyn is somewhat available as an ebook?
Hopefully this is helpful! If you have more questions or are wondering anything specifically, please let me know. If you’d like me to answer something privately, please say so in a message.
Thank you to @dancinbutterfly for the opportunity to clarify: being raised Jewish is not limited to neighborhoods, but very much does include religious traditions. It’s not limited to neighborhoods, food, clothes, etc. The cultural history of Brooklyn is very much tied to Jewish culture, and I welcome anyone reading this to reblog or comment to add their own information, suggestions, resources, etc.
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