Wednesday, July 22, 2009

What's for dinner?


Clear Turtle Soup
Turbot with Lobster Sauce
Haunch of Mutton
Sweetbreads after the mode of Villeroi
Grenadines of Veal
Roast Partridge
Queen Mab Pudding
Strawberry Ice

Amontillado 1858
Champagne Pfungst, 1889
Adriatic maraschino liqueur
Chateau d'Yquem


(From the menu of the Dictionary Dinner,
The Queen's College, Oxford,
12 October, 1897)


~ Simon Winchester, The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary

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