Vintage Easter Menu from the 1950s

Create a fun and delicious vintage Easter menu with this real 1950s Easter menu for inspiration. It’s a fun look into the past.

A great way to get a look into the past is by looking at the food people ate. With Easter coming soon a look at a 1950s Easter menu is a fun place to start.

I read a lot of vintage magazines, especially from the 1950s, and one of my favorite things to look at is vintage menus. They are always so very interesting.

Of course, the Easter menus found in magazines were just suggestions, like menus found in today’s magazines and blogs, but they did feature a lot of the current popular dishes.

I want to share with you today an Easter menu from 1955, it was featured in Better Homes and Gardens. The menus they shared included one for breakfast, company brunch, spring luncheon, Easter dinner, and buffet supper. The one I want to share now is the Easter dinner, if you want to see the others let me know.

I will be including links to recipes for the ones I can find. If there is one with no recipe and you’d like me to try and make it to share let me know.

Vintage Easter Menu

Baked Ham with Pineapple Sauce
Buttered Sweet Potatoes
French Green Beans
New-Cabbage Slaw
Garden Relishes
Hard Rolls
Peach Custard Pie

They suggest you serve a hot consommé for a starter. There is also this helpful tip for keeping your relishes perky- ” serve them on a bed of finely crushed ice. If you have trouble with carrot curls, make sure to use large carrots; slice them paper-thin, fasten ringlets with toothpicks; chill in iced water; remove picks.”

We often think of crazy dishes when we think of the 1950s and sure there were a lot of Jello recipes to be found but they’d likely find our dishes strange as well. And really there were a lot of similarities. We still often have ham, sweet potatoes, green beans, rolls, and fruit pies on Easter.

Who knows how many people followed this kind of menu but it’s very interesting to see what kind of meal was suggested. If you were alive in the 1950s I’d love to hear what you remember eating for Easter, share in the comments below.

Planning Your Vintage Easter

If you want to plan a 1950s-style Easter you want to be organized. I’m sure in the 1950s they would have just used a notebook or something similar to plan but we have a lot more options these days.

You can get my printable Easter planner to make it really easy to plan your Easter including your Easter meal and everything else you will have going on.

If you want something really simple to plan your Easter menu you can get this free Easter menu planning sheet by signing up below. It’s just one page so a lot more simple than the full Easter planner but if all you need to plan is your Easter menu it works really well.

The key to a stress-free holiday is to plan ahead of time and get what you can done ahead of time. It makes your Easter so much more relaxed if you have a plan and prepare ahead of time.