One Hundred Best Recipes of the Century

By Sue Dawson
Dispatch Food Editor

Every other writer in the world has compiled a list of the century's best -- the best movies, the best songs, the most important people, the most influential events.

It's time for recipes.

I'm not going to call this list of 100 recipes "the best." Anyone with any taste buds knows that the 1900s produced far better dishes than tuna noodle casserole and corn dogs. But they define the century of cooking as surely as shrimp de Jonghe and cherries jubilee.

I'm calling my list "The 100 Most Popular Recipes of the Century." How did I determine what to include?

Want to argue? Send e-mail -- but not rotten eggs -- to sdawson@dispatch.com or to Sue Dawson, The Columbus Dispatch, 34 S. 3rd St., Columbus, Ohio 43215

The recipe had to be mentioned by at least two food-history books or in early- and late-1900 cookbooks.

The recipe had to have been popular throughout a major part of the century. Some of the recipes did not originate in the 1900s, but they were at their peak then.

In some cases a recipe was included because a new invention or development made the dish possible. Refrigerators, for example, made icebox cookies easy to make. And cream of mushroom soup brought us Green Bean Bake.

My opinion. Somebody had to decide whether Chex mix and Harvard beets should be included. I figured it might as well be me.

So here goes!
Angel food cake
Applesauce cake
Baked Alaska
Banana bread
Bananas Foster
Beef stroganoff
Beef Wellington
Billi-bi
Black bottom pie
Borscht
Brownies


Caesar salad
California Dip
Carrot cake
Cheese ball
Chef's salad
Cherries jubilee
Chex mix
Chicken a la king
Chicken cacciatore
Chicken divan
Chicken tetrazzini
Chiffon cakes
Chiffon pies
Chili
Chocolate meringue pie
Chop suey
Cioppino
Clam dip
Club sandwich
Cobb salad
Corn dog
Crab cakes
Crab Louis
Crepes suzette


Date nut bread
Devil's food cake


Eggs Benedict
Eggs florentine


Fettuccine Alfredo
Fondue
French dressing
French onion soup
French-fried onion rings
Frozen fruit salad
Fudge


Gazpacho
Golden Glow Salad
Graham cracker crust
Green Bean Bake
Green beans amandine
Green goddess salad
Guacamole

Hamburger
Harvard beets
Heavenly hash
Hermits
Hero sandwich
Hush puppies

Ice-box cookies
Italian spaghetti


Jellyroll


Lady Baltimore cake
Lasagna
Lobster Newburg


Marshmallow sweet potatoes


Nachos


Oatmeal cookies
Oyster's Rockefeller


Pasta primavera
Peach Melba
Peanut butter cookies
Pecan pie 1902
Perfection salad
Philadelphia sticky buns
Pineapple upside-down cake
Pizza


Quiche


Reuben sandwich
Rice Krispies Treats
Rumaki


Smores
Salsa
Senate bean soup
Seven-minute icing
Shrimp Creole
Shrimp de Jonghe
Sloppy Joes
Spanish rice
Swedish meatballs
Sweet and sour meatballs
Swiss steak


Thousand Island dressing
Three-bean salad
Toll House cookies
Tuna noodle casserole
Tuna salad


Vichyssoise


Waldorf salad


Zucchini bread