Today I give you the menu of a St. Valentine's
Dinner held by the Woman's Press Club at the Hotel Windsor, Fifth Avenue, New
York, in 1897, and hope that your own dinner this day is just as fine.
MENU
Blue Points
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Consomme, Princesse
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Olives Salted Almonds Celery
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Chicken Halibut,
Diplomate
Cucumbers New Potatoes
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Philadelphia Capon,
Braised, Madeleine
Macédoine de Légume
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Lamb Chops, Printanier
Petits Pois, Parisienne
Lalla-Rookh Punch
Quail sur Canape
Lettuce Tomatoes
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Charlotte Chantilly Champagne Jelly
Nesselrode Ice Cream in
Cases Assorted Cake
Fruit Roquefort Cheese
Coffee
Lalla-Rookh is the eponymous heroine in Lalla-Rookh, an Oriental Romance, an epic poem written in 1817 by
the Irish poet and song-writer Thomas Moore. The story is about a princess’
journey to meet her betrothed. On the way she falls in love with the poet in
her entourage who entertains her with his stirring stories of heroism and
passion. Spoiler Alert coming up: in the end, she finds that her poet is in
fact her prince.
Lalla-Rookh
Punch was, in fact, a favourite of the time. Charles Ranhofer in his classic
book The Epicurean, published in 1893
describes it thus:
Siberian or Lallah Rookh punch is merely vanilla
ice-cream worked in a freezer, mixing in with it as quarter as much Italian
meringue and about two gills of good rum for each quart of the ice cream; with
this fill plain punch glasses with handles, or cups.
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