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An illustrated heading that reads Menu Thanksgiving Day. On one side is a woman in an apron and bonnet holding a dish of warm food and on the other are shafts of wheat. Below is heading reads “So gladly we welcome the happy day. That comes when the summer is over. When the scattered friends we love so well. Round the home hearth meet once more. This drawing is from the 1903 Woman’s Favorite Cook Book.

Fuel for the Festivities: The Thanksgiving Breakfasts of Yesteryear

Posted by: Jennifer Harbster

The quintessentially American holiday, Thanksgiving evokes images of vast dinner spreads, centered on turkey, and as we cook and bake, prepare and labor on these elaborate feasts, who has time to think about breakfast? Well, some cook book authors in the 1900s didn’t forget breakfast when they shared their Thanksgiving day menus.