Red (Eye/Ham) Gravy (1910)

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   The newest DARE volume has 1945 for "red-eye gravy" and 1939 for "red gravy."  The ProQuest database doesn't have "redeye gravy" before 1950.  The first "red gravy" and "ham" is 1910.


(PROQUEST HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS)("Red Gravy")
  Display Ad 6 -- No Title; The Washington Post (1877-1954), Washington, D.C.; Jun 15, 1933; pg. 4, 1 pgs
("Fried Smithfield Ham, Red Gravy  30c" at Ewart's Cafeteria, 13th and F Streets.)

  Now for Supper.; The Washington Post (1877-1954), Washington, D.C.; Feb 6, 1910; pg. E4, 1 pgs
("After the country ham, with delicious red gravy and exquisitely browned hoecake, is dispatched, try this salt-rising hot roll with the rich, golden, sweet butter of a bluegrass spring season, backed with strong coffee, glorious for aroma, brown with clotted cream, and soothed with dice-loaf sugar.")

  MAINE SPORTSMEN DISCUSS GAME LAWS; Proposed Law, Excluding Firearms During Close Season, Arouses Opposition. ; Special to The New York Times.; New York Times (1857-Current file), New York, N.Y.; Jul 19, 1903; pg. 29, 1 pgs
("The President lives very plainly.  He prefers plain, wholesome food to the most elaborate menu.  One of his favorite dishes is a sirloin steak, medium done, with a dish of blood-red gravy and a large, mealy potato.")

  GOLF ABSORBS LENOX.; All Interesting Tournament to be Played During This Week. ; JULIET CORSON.; New York Times (1857-Current file), New York, N.Y.; Sep 20, 1896; pg. 10, 1 pgs

  HINTS FOR THE HOUSEHOLD; A LITTLE DINNER AFTER ONE'S OWN STOMACH.; New York Times (1857-Current file), New York, N.Y.; Apr 2, 1882; pg. 13, 1 pgs
("...roasting canvas-backs; the breast of the birds is the part eaten, and when cut into should berare and yield a red gravy.")

  HINTS FOR THE HOUSEHOLD; A BILL OF FARE FOR A LENTEN DINNER.; New York Times (1857-Current file), New York, N.Y.; Mar 5, 1882; pg. 9, 1 pgs
("ROAST WILD DUCK...the breasts are plump and full, and yield a clear, red gravy when slightly cut or punctured;...")

  MEMORIALS OF MR. WEBSTER.; NUMBER ELEVEN. Mr. Webster's Conversation on Agricultural Affairs. ; New York Daily Times (1851-1857), New York, N.Y.; Nov 13, 1852; pg. 2, 1 pgs
("Mutton two years older, though no fatter, will have a much higher flavor, the muscle and fat being better mixed, and when thoroughly cooked will fill the dish with red gravy.")


(PROQUEST HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS)("Red Ham Gravy")
  The Post Impressionist; More About Meat; KEY HART.; The Washington Post (1877-1954), Washington, D.C.; Dec 1, 1942; pg. 10, 1 pgs

  ALICE LONGWORTH'S VIVID STORY; In "Crowded Hours" She Releases a Sparkling Flood of Reminiscence; By EDWARD M. KINGSBURY; New York Times (1857-Current file), New York, N.Y.; Nov 5, 1933; pg. BR1, 2 pgs

  A Tale of Chicago Gangsters Among the New Fiction; IN THE SOUTH SEAS; New York Times (1857-Current file), New York, N.Y.; Aug 12, 1928; pg. BR3, 3 pgs

  CLOSE-UPS OF CONGRESS; Watson, a Cigar and a Joke.; By FRASER EDWARDS.; The Washington Post (1877-1954), Washington, D.C.; Mar 28, 1920; pg. 64, 1 pgs
(Quote by Senator Nat Dial of South Carolina.  "The man 'who loves not the concord' of hot hominy and good red ham gravy, or maybe chicken hash, is 'fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.'")