The Jazz Age is thought to be between 1918 and 1930. Major grocery stores didn't exist yet; most people bought "staples" (big bags of flour, sugar, salt, cornstarch, etc) and they made nearly everything from scratch. Meat was either bought from the butcher or hunted. Vegetables were from the fruit and vegetable merchant or grown in a personal garden. See the related link for an easy to read chart; go to your time durations and click on the information provided. One Excellent old cookbook is known as the Fannie Farmer Cookbook. Open it and you'll see recipes for the type of foods that were served in The Jazz Age. Canned foods existed between 1918 and 1930 but they weren't anything like we have today. And prepared frozen foods were unknown. Nearly everything was made from scratch; most women were in charge of the house and spent hours preparing "canned" foods, soups, breads, desserts, and tending vegetable gardens. Food history is really interesting; what passed for gourmet in previous centuries we wouldn't want to eat today. And if we served frozen, prepared food to one of our ancestors, he might think he was being poisoned!
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