CHAPTER 24. THE MENU.

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Family Dinner. A Menu for one day in a Month.

JANUARY.

  • Oxtail soup.
  • Fried whitefish.
  • Small potato balls.
  • Head lettuce.
  • Fillet with champignons.
  • Asparagus.
  • Riced potatoes.
  • Mixed salad.
  • Vanilla ice cream with hot chocolate dressing.
  • Coffee and cake.

FEBRUARY.

  • Grape fruit.
  • Chicken soup.
  • Meat patties.
  • Tongue ragout with dumplings and puff paste scallops.
  • Tomato salad with boiled mayonnaise dressing.
  • Rabbit roast with apple sauce and red cabbage.
  • Orange cream.
  • Coffee.

MARCH.

  • Oyster soup.
  • Fine ragout in shells.
  • Asparagus with tongue.
  • Lamb crown roast with turnips and mashed potatoes.
  • Chocolate pudding with vanilla sauce.
  • Coffee.

APRIL.

  • Bouillon in cups.
  • Bread sticks.
  • Fish in red wine sauce.
  • Fried potatoes.
  • Chicken salad.
  • Fillet beefsteak with sliced goose liver.
  • Macaroni with tomato sauce.
  • Cold rice pudding with peaches and whipped cream.

MAY.

  • Vegetable soup.
  • Lamb roast.
  • Stuffed potatoes.
  • Spinage.
  • Green asparagus with salmon.
  • Fried pigeons with gooseberry jam.
  • Cheese, tart and coffee.

JUNE.

  • Tomato soup.
  • Ham noodles.
  • Roast beef with fried potatoes and cauliflower.
  • Asparagus salad.
  • Strawberry ice with macaroons.
  • Bread and butter and cheese.
  • Coffee.

JULY.

  • Bouillon with marrow dumplings.
  • Fish ragout in shells.
  • Baked ham with Burgundy sauce.
  • Stuffed tomatoes.
  • Potato chips.
  • Red farina pudding with cream.
  • Coffee.

AUGUST.

  • Green pea soup.
  • Lobster with remoulade sauce.
  • Veal chops with apple sauce.
  • Head lettuce.
  • Broiled spring chicken.
  • Fried potatoes.
  • Fruit salad.
  • Coffee and cake or tart.

SEPTEMBER.

  • Bouillon with egg sponge dumplings.
  • Chicken fricassee with dumplings and puff paste scallops.
  • Hamburg steak with green beans and creamed potatoes.
  • Champignon salad.
  • Chocolate cream.
  • Bread and butter.
  • Cheese.
  • Coffee.

OCTOBER.

  • Brown bouillon with rice pudding.
  • Lobster ragout in shells.
  • Fried duck with cranberries and baked cauliflower.
  • Mixed salad.
  • Strawberry cream with almond heaps.

NOVEMBER.

  • Green corn soup.
  • Duck ragout.
  • Lamb cutlet with kohlrabi.
  • Potato pudding.
  • Mixed jam or marmalade.
  • Apple strudel.

DECEMBER.

  • Fish soup.
  • Roasted chestnuts with sliced goose liver.
  • Turkey with jam and potatoes.
  • Mixed salad.
  • Plum pudding with vanilla sauce.

A FINE SUPPER OR BREAKFAST.

A Menu for each Season.

JANUARY to MARCH.

  • Bouillon with cheese wafers.
  • Lobster with remoulade sauce.
  • Caviar on toast.
  • Mutton chops with chestnut puree.
  • Truffle salad.
  • Spring chicken with jam.
  • Tutti-Frutti ice.

APRIL to JUNE.

  • Crab soup.
  • Asparagus and cutlets.
  • Pigeons and salad.
  • Strawberry cream and cake.

JULY to SEPTEMBER.

  • Bouillon in cups with bread sticks.
  • Fish with Bearnaise dressing.
  • Small potato balls.
  • Sweetbread ragout with peas.
  • Venison.
  • Tomato salad.
  • Fine wine ice cream.

OCTOBER to DECEMBER.

  • Grape fruit.
  • Oysters.
  • Fillets of sole with mushroom sauce.
  • Turkey with apple sauce.
  • Mixed salad.
  • Chocolate ice.

FINE DINNER.

A Menu for Each Season.

JANUARY to MARCH.

  • Asparagus soup, meat patties.
  • Venison with jam.
  • Trout with horse radish and mustard butter.
  • Pineapple ice.
  • Young roast goose with small potato balls.
  • Partridge with cucumber and tomato salad.
  • Asparagus with creamed butter.
  • Strawberry cream with almond heaps.
  • Crackers.
  • Butter.
  • Various kinds of cheese.
  • Coffee.

APRIL to JUNE.

  • Vegetable soup.
  • Timbale of crabs with herb sauce.
  • Lamb roast with champignons.
  • Whitefish with beaten egg sauce.
  • Chicken souffle with puff paste scallops.
  • Venison with vegetable salad.
  • Asparagus with tongue.
  • Strawberries and vanilla ice cream.
  • Coffee.
  • Fruit.

JULY to SEPTEMBER.

  • Crawfish soup.
  • Chicken patties with lobster, mayonnaise dressing.
  • Saddle of veal garnished with beef tongue and riced potatoes.
  • Broiled spring chicken with Bearnaise dressing.
  • Champignons and stuffed tomatoes.
  • Salmon with cucumber salad and browned butter.
  • Baked sweetbreads with toast.
  • Snipe with jam.
  • Truffle and artichoke salad.
  • Cold rice pudding with peaches and whipped cream.
  • Coffee.

OCTOBER to DECEMBER.

  • Turtle soup.
  • Caviar pie.
  • Venison with artichokes, garnished with goose liver and Madeira sauce.
  • Fine fish with small potato balls.
  • Brown champignons.
  • Crawfish.
  • Turkey with cranberries, salad.
  • Chocolate ice with cake.

A LARGE BUFFET.

For 30 Persons.

  • 1 salmon with lobsters and mayonnaise dressing
  • 1 venison roast
  • 1 roast beef
  • 1 saddle of veal or veal roast
  • 1 ham
  • 1 chicken, asparagus and crawfish jelly with herb sauce
  • 2 chicken pies with champignons
  • 1 macaroni pudding with tomato sauce
  • 1 goose liver pie garnished with aspic
  • Fine fish salad
  • Lobster salad
  • 2 dishes of vegetables, (asparagus, peas, morels with crab tails)
  • 12 deviled eggs
  • 6 qts. assorted ices
  • 2 wine jellies with fruit
  • 4 portions of cake

EVERY DAY DINNER.

No. 1.

  • Soup with mushrooms.
  • Roast stuffed chicken.
  • Potatoes.
  • Apple sauce.
  • Orange cream.

No. 2.

  • Bread soup.
  • Boiled fish with beaten egg gravy.
  • Small potato balls.
  • Head lettuce.
  • Filled pancakes.

No. 3.

  • Bouillon with rice.
  • Veal roast, sauerkraut.
  • Mashed potatoes.
  • Chocolate pudding with vanilla sauce.

No. 4.

  • Pea soup.
  • Hamburg steak, spinage.
  • Stuffed potatoes.
  • Lemon souffle.

No. 5.

  • Marrow dumpling soup.
  • Lamb crown roast with cauliflower.
  • Potatoes.
  • Apple strudel.

No. 6.

  • Tomato soup.
  • Meat pie with rice.
  • Tomato salad.
  • Omelet.

No. 7.

  • Pea soup.
  • Roast beef.
  • Stuffed tomatoes.
  • Fried potatoes.
  • Vanilla ice cream.

No. 8.

  • Wine soup.
  • Fish in red wine sauce, potatoes.
  • Macaroni with tomato sauce.
  • Apple sauce with cake.

No. 9.

  • Soup with bread sticks.
  • Stuffed duck.
  • Red cabbage.
  • Potato pudding.
  • Strawberry ice cream.

No. 10.

  • Asparagus soup.
  • Chicken pie with cold slaw.
  • Potatoes.
  • Apple strudel.

No. 11.

  • Vegetable soup.
  • Veal chops.
  • Kohlrabi.
  • Mashed potatoes.
  • Stuffed apples with rice pudding.

No. 12.

  • Oyster soup.
  • Goose stuffed with chestnuts.
  • Cranberries.
  • Potatoes.
  • Vanilla ice cream with hot chocolate sauce.

No. 13.

  • Potato soup.
  • Mock rabbit.
  • Mashed potatoes.
  • Green beans.
  • Wine jelly.

No. 14.

  • Blueberry soup.
  • Chicken fricassee with rice and potatoes.
  • Potato pancakes with apple sauce.

No. 15.

  • Red wine soup.
  • Stuffed lamb crown roast.
  • Turnips.
  • Mashed potatoes.
  • Rice pudding with cherry syrup.

No. 16.

  • Cauliflower soup.
  • Fried sausage.
  • Beets.
  • Potatoes.
  • Bread pudding with cream.

No. 17.

  • Lentil soup with Wieners.
  • Fried fish.
  • Head lettuce.
  • Fried potatoes.
  • Filled omelet.

No. 18.

  • Bouillon with farina dumplings.
  • Stuffed veal breast.
  • Asparagus.
  • Stuffed potatoes.
  • Coffee with thousand puff tart.

No. 19.

  • Bean soup.
  • Stuffed cabbage head.
  • Potatoes with cracker sauce.
  • Apple fritters.

No. 20.

  • Celery soup.
  • Sour roast.
  • Potato dumplings.
  • Noodles.
  • Fruit salad with whipped cream.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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