La Veta Hotel Christmas Dinner 1889
Claret Wine Reisling Wine
Blue Points Hearts of Lettuce
Kalamazoo Celery
Oyster Consomme a la Jardiniere
Barbecued Trout Parisienne Potatoes
matre d Boiled Ham Brazed Elk Champignons
Blance Rabbit a la Francisco Duck a la Maringue
Queen Fritters Sweet Wine
Roast PrimeRib of Beef Young Pig Stuffedwith Apple Sauce
Povindeur of TurkeyCranberry Sauce
Antelope with Current Jelly Chicken Salad
Mayonaise Mashed Potatoes Baked Sweet Potatoes
Petits Pois Hot Slaw Green Apple Pie Mince Pie
La Veta Ice Cream Assorted Cake
Christmas Plum Pudding with Hard and Brandy Sauce Fruits
Raisins Assorted Nuts Muscat Grapes
Chocolate with Whipped Cream
Christmas Dinner Shared between Trappers & Indians, Utah 1840
Stewed Elk Meat Boiled Deer Meat
Boiled Flour Pudding with Dried Fruit and Sour Berry Sauce
Cakes and Strong Coffee Sweetened
After dinner tobacco pipes were smoked
Shooting contests passed the remainder of the day.
Christmas Dinner Menu Camp Desolation,1848
Recorded by
Thomas E. Breckenridge, member of Colonel John Fremonts 4th expedition west.
Fried Mule Mule Chops Boiled Mule Stewed Mule Scrambled Mule
Shirred Mule French Fried Mule Minced Mule
Damned Mule Mule on Toast(without toast)
Short ribs of Mule with Apple Sauce (without Apple Sauce)
Beverages: Snow Snow Water Water
"It really makes no difference how our meat was cooked. It was still the same old mule".
Booth Family Christmas Dinner, Four Mile House, Denver, Colorado 1883
Stewed Oysters Boned Turkey Stuffed Ham
Mashed Potatoes Candied Sweet Potatoes
Fried Celery Turnips Beets
Gelatin with Fruit Nuts Plum Pudding
Baked Lemon Pudding Fruit Cake with candied oranges
Coffee
Mountain Man Christmas Dinner - White River region, 1842
"This great annual feast is observerd with all the exhilaration hilarity and good cheer that circumstances will allow. Several little extras for the occasion have been procured from the Indians, which prove quite wholesome and pleasent-tasted. One of these, called washena, consists of dried meat pulverized and mixed with marrow; another is a preparation of cherries, preserved when first picked by pounding and sun drying them (they are served by mixing them with bouille, or the liquor of fresh boiled meat, thus giving to it an agreeable winish taste);
a third is a marrow fat, an article in many respects superior to butter; and lastly, we obtained a kind of flour made from the pomme blanc (white apple), answering very well as a substite for that of grain.
The above assortment, with a small supply of sugar and coffee, as well as several other dainties variously prepared, affords an excellent dinner, and though different in kind, by no means inferior in quality to the generality of dinners for which the day is noted in more civilized communities.
Christmas Dinner Fort Custer, Montana
Troop G 1st US Cavalry 1889
Oyster Soup Macaroni Soup
Lobster Salad Franch Slaw Shrimp salad
Vegtables Roasted Potatoes Steamed Tomatoes
Chow Chow French Mustard Worchester Sauce Pickled Cucumbers
Pickled Onions Broiled Prairie Chicken Roast Porterhouse Beef, natural sauce
Venison, applesauce Pig Turkey w/cranberry sauce Oyster Dressing
Mince Pie Cranberry Pie Apple Pie
Preserved Peaches Preserved Pears Apples Raisens Nuts
Tea Coffee Chocolate
Christmas Dinner Fort Conger, Artic Circle
Greeley Expedition 1881
Mock Turtle Soup
Potatoes Green Corn Green Peas Asparagas
Roast Beef Fricassed Guillemot
Spiced Musk Ox Tongue Tenderloin of Musk Ox
Crab Salad
Ice Cream Grapes Cherries Pine-apples Coconut Pie Plum Pudding, wine sauce
Dates Figs Nuts
Candies Chocolate
Coffee Eggnogg