Create a fun and delicious vintage Easter menu with this real 1950s Easter menu for inspiration. It’s a fun look into the past.
This was originally shared in March 2023 and has been updated to include more Easter meal plans and recipes!
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. It’s a fun look at history and also can serve as inspiration.
Vintage Easter Menus
I have linked to recipes I can find. If there are some listed that you’d like me to try to recreate leave a comment below.
Easter Breakfast
- Layered Golden Omelet *
- Frizzled Ham Slices
- Brown and Serve Sausage
- Hot Cross Buns
- Butter Balls
- Strawberry Jam
- Orange Marmalade
- Strawberry Grapefruit Cup
- Hot Coffee
Company Lunch
- Creamed Ham and Mushrooms in Cornmeal Shells *
- Buttered Asparagus
- Fruit-Salad Platter
- Sweet Fruit Dressing *
- Frosted Cinnamon Twists *
- Hot Coffee
They recommend making the ham the day before and also baking the shells and rolls ahead of time.
Spring Luncheon
- South Seas Chicken on Rice *
- Buttered New Peas
- Variety Salad Bowl *
- Toasted Rolls
- Sponge Cake Wedges with Lemon Cream *
- Hot Tea
Easter Dinner
- 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.”
Buffet Supper
- Meatballs in Sour Cream *
- Fresh Asparagus
- Spring Salad Molds *
- Parker House Rolls
- Pineapple Wedges and Fresh Strawberry
- Chocolate-Almond Meringues. *
*These recipes can be found in the printable version of the 1950s Easter Menus which is available to Retro Homemaker’s Club members.Â
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.
Printable 1950s Easter Meal Plans And Recipes
If you want more of the vintage recipes included in the 1950s Easter meal plans you can get a free printable meal plan with 12 of the recipes shown above, join the Retro Homemaker’s Club today!
Each month members get a new vintage meal plan printable with the full meal plan and any recipes that were included in the original meal plan, generally at least 6 recipes.
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.
More Easter Resources
Looking for more Easter resources? Be sure to check out these articles here on Retro Housewife Goes Green.
Deanna Piercy says
Sounds pretty good! We are going to have ham, mashed potatoes, green bean casserole, cranberry sauce and rolls. That peach custard pie sounds delicious. I just might have to try that!