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Popular 1920’s Food Recipes You’ve Got to Try! Get a taste of the Roaring Twenties with these vintage recipes for oysters Rockefeller, finger sandwiches, icebox cakes and more. 1920s food had a lot to offer! My husband and I are oyster farmers, and this classic Oysters Rockefeller dish always delights our guests. It’s deliciously simple!
Wonder Bread, Girl Scout cookies, Kool-Aid, and Popsicles all made their first appearance during the decade. Jell-O, introduced in 1897, became a pantry staple, and by the 1920s was termed “America’s most favorite dessert.”
As the depression gripped the nation, the 1930’s ushered in a slew of ingenious cakes. Containing no eggs, butter or milk, these became quite popular during the time for obvious reasons. Housewives tried to contribute to household income by making and selling baked goods to their neighbors.
I started to stress until my friend Leigh put it into perspective for me: “If you really were a home cook in the 1920s, you wouldn’t have been Instagramming any of the food. You probably would have saved photography for really special occasions and funeral portraits.”
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