My old Chatelaine cookbook that’s been lugged around the world with us, makes the description more elegant, by placing maraschino cherries (which were introduced in the 1920’s) in the centres of the cut diamonds in the fat, and placing strips of kumquats into the cuts, so try combining the two. Try Chatelaine’s spiced baked ham recipe. Be inspired by these more ornate styles from the blog Interiors By Patti, or go fresh and modern and be inspired from TheKnot.īaked Ham. Oranges and Lemons. They were used as juice, but make tall towers with them as centrepieces. In the case of the book, they were probably used as mixers.
#The whisperings and the champagne and the stars driver#
If you just don’t drink, are the designated driver or are throwing this party for a below 18 year old (or 21, whichever your legal drinking age is), cordials make an appealing and tasty alternative.
A little champagne? Nothing at all, thanks…’ Try Sweet Kiera’s meyer lemonade recipe here. But he would be uneasy anyhow until he had given them something, realizing in a vague way that that was all they came for. ‘He was profoundly affected by the fact that Tom was there. We made these earlier this week and served them up in an authentic mint julep cup. A freshing combo of gin, lime and mineral water. Try orange pekoe, black tea or green tea. You don’t have to throw a big dinner party to celebrate The Great Gatsby out in cinemas. In the novel, tea is served with the lemon cakes when Gatsby and Daisy meet at Nick’s house. This is a pricier wine (the lowest I could find was $30 a bottle) but can be served just as dessert itself. Serve it at room temperature and not with sweet desserts (goes well with cheeses). Crittenden & Co (links to Dan Murphy’s, my local Australian store) makes a nice rosé that’s well priced for large dinner parties (~$5 a bottle). For this party, in it’s place, try any rosé wine. The term Claret de Bordeaux now means a fruity light red wine that’s easy to drink. A dark rosé wine from Bordeaux, now no longer around. If you don’t want to buy glass like these Casablanca Champagne Coupe, try a package of 40 Plastic Champagne Glasses for a larger party.Ĭlaret. Just remember they served them in wide brimmed champagne glasses, not the flutes that we use today.
Alcohol was prohibited in the 1920’s, but it still was around. Let’s pull it all together, shall we? Below are the drinks and food mentioned throughout the book, as well as links to recipes around the web.Ĭhampagne. In the main hall a bar with a real brass rail was set up, and stocked with gins and liquors and with cordials so long forgotten that most of his female guests were too young to know one from another. On buffet tables, garnished with glistening hors-d’oeuvre, spiced baked hams crowded against salads of harlequin designs and pastry pigs and turkeys bewitched to a dark gold. There was a machine in the kitchen which could extract the juice of two hundred oranges in half an hour if a little button was pressed two hundred times by a butler’s thumb.Īt least once a fortnight a corps of caterers came down with several hundred feet of canvas and enough colored lights to make a Christmas tree of Gatsby’s enormous garden. And on Mondays eight servants, including an extra gardener, toiled all day with mops and scrubbing-brushes and hammers and garden-shears, repairing the ravages of the night before.Įvery Friday five crates of oranges and lemons arrived from a fruiterer in New York - every Monday these same oranges and lemons left his back door in a pyramid of pulpless halves. On week-ends his Rolls-Royce became an omnibus, bearing parties to and from the city between nine in the morning and long past midnight, while his station wagon scampered like a brisk yellow bug to meet all trains. At high tide in the afternoon I watched his guests diving from the tower of his raft, or taking the sun on the hot sand of his beach while his two motor-boats slit the waters of the Sound, drawing aquaplanes over cataracts of foam. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars. T here was music from my neighbor’s house through the summer nights.
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