Each year on TRs birthday I host a lunch serving his favorite spice cake and sand tarts. This October I will add peaches and cream, my all time favorite as well.
Although as far as we know the Sagamore Hill recipe no longer exists (if it was ever written down to begin with), we do have some notes from the 1904 White House Cookbook! Pretty standard stuff - drippings, flour, cream or milk, salt, and pepper.
Interesting to know that earlier in the book, as a general etiquette note, they say that gravy should not be poured over meat, but served on the side, so that diners may take what they wish. But here, they specifically say to pour the gravy over the chicken! We have to imagine that was TR's influence!
Each year on TRs birthday I host a lunch serving his favorite spice cake and sand tarts. This October I will add peaches and cream, my all time favorite as well.
Dr. Hansard, do you have any educated guesses about the recipe for the “white gravy” that was served with the Roosevelts’ fried chicken?
Although as far as we know the Sagamore Hill recipe no longer exists (if it was ever written down to begin with), we do have some notes from the 1904 White House Cookbook! Pretty standard stuff - drippings, flour, cream or milk, salt, and pepper.
You can read the recipe for fried chicken with gravy as served here: https://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.hn44k2?urlappend=%3Bseq=102%3Bownerid=115639936-106
Interesting to know that earlier in the book, as a general etiquette note, they say that gravy should not be poured over meat, but served on the side, so that diners may take what they wish. But here, they specifically say to pour the gravy over the chicken! We have to imagine that was TR's influence!