Greetings! I am cooking my way through Photoplay’s 1929 cookbook and you are invited to tag along! The recipes are ostensibly from the personal kitchens of some of the biggest actors, writers and directors of the silent era.
This project is not about creating historical replicas. Rather, it is about seeing if a modern cook with ordinary ingredients can jump into this unusual recipe collection and emerge with something delicious. As a result, I will be making minor substitutions when the original ingredient is unavailable.
Bon appetit!
Recipes by Star/Talent
In order of surname.
Recipes by Score
My scores, 1=horrid and 5=bliss!
Recipes by Type
I used the original categories from the cookbook. While many recipes are vegetarian, very few are vegan as-is. I will mark the recipes that are either vegan or can be converted to vegan with a few simple substitutions.
♦ = Vegetarian (eggs and dairy)
♥ = Vegan or vegan-friendly (can be made vegan with two or three small substitutions)
Meat
Baked Lamb Chops (Bebe Daniels)
Chili Con Carne (Victor McLaglen)
Corned Beef and Cabbage (Lew Cody)
Epicurean Bouchée (Adolphe Menjou)
Sweetbreads a la Windsor (Claire Windsor)
Sweetbread and Mushroom Patties (Nancy Carroll)
Toad in the Hole (Richard Dix)
Chicken and Liver Timbales (Gary Cooper)
Fish
Baked Clam in Shell (Sam Hardy)
Vegetables and Soups
♦ ♥ French Peas with Butter (Carol Dempster)
♦ Fresh Peas on Toast (Alice White)
Lentil Soup with Frankfurters (Ford Sterling)
Mushroom Soup (Francis X. Bushman)
♦ ♥ Southern Sweet Potatoes (William Gillette)
♦ Stuffed Summer Squash (William S. Hart)
Salad
♦ ♥ Chaplin Nut Salad (Charlie Chaplin)
♦ ♥ French Banana Salad (Joan Crawford)
♥ Fruit Salad a la Jell (Lilyan Tashman)
♦ ♥ Pineapple Fruit Salad (Aileen Pringle)
♦ ♥ Raw Vegetable Salad (Claudette Colbert)
♦ ♥ Reid Divinity Salad (Wallace Reid)
♦ ♥ Salad a la Philippine (Irene Rich)
Scenario Salad (Agnes Christine Johnston)
Stuffed Tomato Ravigotte (Jeanie Macpherson)
♦ ♥ Tomato Nut Salad (Frances Marion)
♦ ♥ Tomatoes with French Garlic Dressing (Edward Everett Horton)
♦ ♥ Vegetable Salad (Norma Talmadge)
Hot Bread, Fixings, etc.
♦ Cheese Straws (Florence Vidor)
♦ ♥ Peach Shortcake Tampa (Marion Davies)
♦ Rye Griddle Cakes (Tim McCoy)
Egg and Cheese
♦ Cheese Patties (Marion Davies)
♦ Deviled Eggs (Harry Houdini)
Eggs with Pate de Foie Gras (Virginia Valli)
♦ Pepper Eggs (Pauline Starke)
Candy and Desserts
♦ ♥ Banana Bread (Marlene Dietrich)
♦ ♥ Banana Trifle (Pola Negri)
♦ Chocolate Cookies (Linda Arvidson)
♦ Cream Fudge (Gloria Swanson)
♦ ♥ Fruit Cookies (Junior Coghlan)
♦ ♥ Grape Nut Pudding (Constance Talmadge)
♦ ♥ Jenny Lind Pudding (Mary Brian)
♦ ♥ Peanut Cookies (Sidney Drew)
♦ Raspberry Jam Tarts (Mary Pickford)
♦ ♥ Scripture Cake (Thelma Todd)
♦ Southern Gingerbread (Dorothy Sebastian)
♦ ♥ Tapioca Wine Soup (Robert Cain)
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