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Food for the Great Anniversary Festival (AccordingToHoyt.com)

Jerry Stratton, July 3, 2026

The Eye in the Biscuit: The Eye in the Biscuit, and Other Terrifying Tales of the Seventies.; food; H. P. Lovecraft; memes

The image links to the Great Anniversary Festival recipe cards (PDF File, 4.5 MB), but this particular recipe is available in A Sestercentennial Cookery.

Sarah Hoyt invited me to post something about Bi/Vi/Centennial food on According To Hoyt, and it’s now up. Please read Food for the Great Anniversary Festival there! It features a special collection of Centennial-friendly recipes just for Hoyt’s Huns, and includes recipes not in A Sestercentennial Cookery. There are also different takes on the history of some of these books and foods than I put into the break-out posts.

  1. Bicentennial meal
  2. Centennial Meal
  3. Vicennial Meal
  4. Sestercentennial Cookery
  5. Monticello Meal
  6. Great Anniversary Food ⬅︎

If you came here for the Great Anniversary Festival recipe PDF (PDF File, 4.5 MB), you can download it by way of this link (PDF File, 4.5 MB)!

I’ve also linked the other eighteenth and nineteenth century cookbooks below.

The day is passed.—The 4th of July, 1776, will be a memorable epoch in the history of America. I am apt to believe it will be celebrated by succeeding generations, as the GREAT ANNIVERSARY FESTIVAL!

Rice and Beans Baron de Brise: Podrilla à la Creole from the Baron de Brise, as presented in the 1976 edition of Marie Kimball’s Thomas Jefferson’s Cook Book.

The Baron de Brise’s rice and beans served in a rice ring.

Martha Jefferson Randolph’s Fish Potato Pie: Fish Potato Pie, by Martha Jefferson Randolph, as presented in the 1976 edition of Marie Kimball’s Thomas Jefferson’s Cook Book.

Martha Jefferson Randolph’s Fish Potato Pie.

Apple Custard Pie from the Horsford Cook-Book: A slice of Apple Custard Pie, from the 1877 or so Horsford Cook-Book of the Rumford Chemical Works.

Apple Custard Pie (1876, Horsford).

German Lemon Cookies: German Lemon Cookies, from the 1876 Centennial Cook Book and General Guide.

German Lemon Cookies (1876).

Ohio Black Pepper Slaw: Black Pepper Slaw, or “Cabbage Salad”, from the 1876 Centennial Buckeye Cook Book.

Black Pepper Slaw (1876, Ohio).

You may also be interested in my Sestercentennial Year posts:

A Sestercentennial Year

  1. Our lot is cast in this happy land…
  2. The World Turned Upside Down
  3. Cherry Valley: A Massacre of the Revolution
  4. The Battle of the Kegs
  5. Padgett Sunday Supper Club Sestercentennial Cookery
  6. The New Colossus Breathes Free
  7. Irish mashed potato pie for Π Day and Saint Patrick’s Day
  8. Mock the Wind and Sing of Marion’s Men
  9. Flowers o’er the Tory grave: Disney’s Francis Marion
  10. A Monticello Meal for Independence Day
  11. No Common Spirits: Jefferson and Adams survive
  12. News on the Deaths of Adams and Jefferson
  13. The Riflemen of Bennington and the British Granadiers
Avocado Mold of the Old Ones: Avocado Mold from 1976.

I am not providing the recipe for this 1976 avocado mold, lest a careless kitchen awaken the Old Ones from their eternal sleep. But it is in my Sestercentennial Cookery.

Uncle Sam Trio: Me and my brothers, dressed as Uncle Sam, July 4, 1976.

Three kids dressed as Uncle Sam, ready for the parade on July 4, 1976.

Indian Pudding: A Nice Indian Pudding number 2, from American Cookery.

Not the best presentation, but wonderful cornbread-like pudding (or pudding-like cornbread).

Mrs. Rosella Trist’s Gumbo: Mrs. Rosella Trist’s Gumbo, from the 1976 edition of Marie Kimball’s Thomas Jefferson’s Cook Book.

Mrs. Rosella Trist’s Louisiana Gumbo.

No-Bake Cookies: No-Bake Cookies, lined up ready to slurp up.

The milk is a reward for eating all of these like an anachronistic Pac-Man.

America’s Bicentennial Cook Book: “Featuring Favorite Recipes From Hesperia, Michigan.”; cookbooks; America’s Bicentennial; Hesperia, Michigan
Potter County Bicentennial Cook Book: A Bicentennial Cook Book compiled by the Potter County, Texas Home Demonstration Council.; cookbooks; America’s Bicentennial; Potter County, Texas
Les Johnson’s Antimatter Creams: Les Johnson holding the positron-heavy fudge that he inspired.

Les Johnson about to test the potency of the positron-heavy Antimatter Creams.

Horsford Centennial Award: Back cover of the Horsford Cook-Book, featuring their Centennial Award from the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition.

Note the “Centennial Award” touting Horsford’s efficiency, nutrition, and economy.

The Centennial Cook Book and General Guide cover: Cover for Mrs. Ella E. Myers’s 1876 cookbook celebrating the previous hundred years of Philadelphia and since the signing of the Declaration of Independence.; cookbooks; Philadelphia; food history; vintage cookbooks; America’s Centennial; 1876
Exhibition Grounds of the International Exposition, Philadelphia: “Exhibition Grounds, The International Exhibition, opens May 10th, 1876. Closes Nov. 10th, 1876.”; Philadelphia; America’s Centennial; 1876
Centennial Memorial Medal: Centennial Memorial Medal, from the 1876 Centennial Cook Book and General Guide. “These United Colonies are, and of a right ought, to be free and independent states.”; cookbooks; America’s Centennial; 1876

In response to A Bicentennial Meal for the Sestercentennial: Four community cookbooks celebrating the bicentennial. As we approach our sestercentennial in 2026, what makes a meal from 1976?

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