{"id":383,"date":"2011-11-24T01:17:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-24T01:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogybank.com\/?p=383"},"modified":"2024-07-31T08:19:33","modified_gmt":"2024-07-31T12:19:33","slug":"traditional-thanksgiving-recipes-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/traditional-thanksgiving-recipes-from.html","title":{"rendered":"Traditional Thanksgiving Recipes from 19th Century America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms;\">Americans have been gathering together as family and friends for centuries to celebrate Thanksgiving: a holiday tradition of giving thanks, enjoying each other\u2019s company\u2014and of course eating. Recognizing their readers\u2019 interest in food throughout the holiday season, many newspapers publish Thanksgiving recipes during the month of November.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>One handy feature of GenealogyBank\u2019s newspaper archives is that it includes digital, complete copies of the back runs of the nation\u2019s newspapers. Newspapers wrote about all aspects of our ancestors\u2019 lives\u2014including what they liked to eat for their holiday dinner.<\/p>\n<p>The following sections are from an 1892 newspaper article that highlighted the unique regional cuisine in Thanksgiving menus from around America. This historical newspaper article presents many fine traditional recipes from New England and the South.<span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms;\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5678367429570088114\" class=\"alignnone\" style=\"text-align: center; margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 320px; display: block; height: 109px; cursor: hand;\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/s320\/thanksgiving-dinner-new-england-20-nov-1892-p14-ny-herald-final.jpg\" alt=\"New York Herald (New York City, New York), 20 November 1892\" width=\"320\" height=\"109\" border=\"0\" \/>If you\u2019re a New Englander, how much does your Thanksgiving dinner differ from what was traditional back in 1892?<br \/>\n<\/span><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/s1600\/thanksgiving-pumpkin-pie-ny-herald-20-nov-1892-p14.jpg\"><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5678366536922805570\" class=\"alignnone\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 320px; float: left; height: 167px; cursor: hand;\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/s320\/thanksgiving-pumpkin-pie-ny-herald-20-nov-1892-p14.jpg\" alt=\"New York Herald (New York City, New York), 20 November 1892\" width=\"320\" height=\"167\" border=\"0\" \/><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms;\">Here is a classic pumpkin pie and pie crust recipe from this old 1892 newspaper article.<\/span><\/p>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5678366204125451106\" class=\"alignnone\" style=\"text-align: center; margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 320px; display: block; height: 98px; cursor: hand;\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/s320\/thanksgiving-pie-crust-ny-herald-20-nov-1892-p14.jpg\" alt=\"New York Herald (New York City, New York), 20 November 1892\" width=\"320\" height=\"98\" border=\"0\" \/>In this historical Thanksgiving newspaper article you will even find the recipe for Southern style gumbo soup.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms;\">Find the best Thanksgiving recipes to enjoy with your family this holiday season in the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/gbnk\/newspapers\/explore\/USA\/New_York\/New_York\/New_York_Herald\/\"><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms;\">New York Herald<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms;\"> (New York City, New York), 20 November 1892, page 14. <a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/s1600\/thanksgiving-gumbo-soup-ny-herald-20-nov-1892-p14-final-take.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5678367931595130850\" class=\"alignnone\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; width: 320px; float: right; height: 215px; cursor: hand;\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/s320\/thanksgiving-gumbo-soup-ny-herald-20-nov-1892-p14-final-take.jpg\" alt=\"New York Herald (New York City, New York), 20 November 1892\" width=\"320\" height=\"215\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Go to the full article \u201cFat Turkeys, Mince Pie and Also Egg Nogg\u201d to read about some of the old traditional Thanksgiving recipes of our American ancestors: <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/uu6Q3n\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms;\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/uu6Q3n<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Americans have been gathering together as family and friends for centuries to celebrate Thanksgiving: a holiday tradition of giving thanks, enjoying each other\u2019s company\u2014and of course eating. Recognizing their readers\u2019 interest in food throughout the holiday season, many newspapers publish Thanksgiving recipes during the month of November. One handy feature of GenealogyBank\u2019s newspaper archives is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12713],"tags":[3,1129,426,12,427,878],"class_list":["post-383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genealogy-research-tips","tag-ancestry","tag-family","tag-family-history-expo","tag-genealogy","tag-georgia","tag-new-york-city"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99963,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions\/99963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}