Also Swedish Cardamom Bread, Orange Parker House Rolls, Pineapple Upside-down Cake, Mystery Cake, Vienertoerte (Icelandic) Cake, Lady Baltimore Icing, Cape Elizabeth Cookies, Spiced Fruit Bars, French Fried Fresh Shrimp and Old Plantation Shortcake.

            Perhaps the most unusually named recipe in the book is for a cookie-type creation called “Boston Brownies for University Men.” It has no unusual ingredients and no explanation for the name.

            Will we ever see airline food service featuring items like these, again? “I don’t know,” says erstwhile Food Service Mogul Al Carriveau. “Maybe, but I wouldn’t hold my breath.”

BUT THEN, HE RECALLED ANOTHER FOOD STORY!

            The following was gleamed from the pages of “Northwest Airlines News” for February, 1955….

             “Northwest Airlines is in the process of working out detailed plans to give its Trans-Pacific passengers the most complete and luxurious meal service ever offered by a commercial airline. Northwest will put new 1049-G Super Constellations in service on its “Great Circle” route Match 1. Here are some of the highpoints of Northwest’s new trans-Pacific first class meal service. Meals will be served continental style, in courses.

            Before-dinner cocktails or highballs and after-dinner drinks such as brandy, crème de menthe, creme de cacao and Drambuie will be offered. Fruit juice will be available. Beverage service will be available at all times. Meals will be served with a choice of champagne or wine. Linen napkins and tablecloths, as well as silverware and a new line of dishes, will be used. Meal service will be made with hotel-type silver-plate utensils.

            Hot canapés, mints, salted nuts and cheese trays and fruit baskets will be passed around during meal service. Cheese trans and fruit baskets will be available to passengers at their seats or in the Super Constellation lounge anytime during flights. A new automatic coffee-making unit will assure a fresh cup of coffee at any time….

            …”Northwest pursers, stewardesses and flight service attendants who will staff the Super Constellations flights each will receive a month’s preparatory training before working the Super Constellations.”

TIMES DO CHANGE!!!!

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