All tagged New England Foodways
Elizabeth began planning the menu for the May breakfast. Her fruit cellar still contained a wide variety of jellies and preserves, many of them put aside at the time of their making, for this particular event. The wild strawberries, preserved on the glass by the heat of the sun’s rays, for instance, were a delicacy which the family had enjoyed only at Thanksgiving and Christmas practices.
For the body of the breakfast Elizabeth Phelps Bradley planned platters of fried chicken, ham and eggs, with golden brown mashed potato cakes, and kernel corn pancakes which her mother and grandmother had made famous. Her table would also include ...
