A Colonial Menu for Each Month of the Year

Menus: January-December (Colonial Housewife p1-6: See Bibliography)

January

A chine of beef boiled and carrots and savoys, with melted butter, hare and fowls roasted, with rich gravy; tarts.

February

Ham and fowls roasted, with gravy sauce; leg of lamb boiled, with spinach.

March

Scollops or fried oysters; leg of lamb, with spinach; tarts and fruit.

April

A roasted shoulder of veal stuff'd, and melted butter; a leg of pork boiled and pease pudding.

May

Green goose, with gravy sauce; collared eels, and tarts.

June

A haunch of venison roasted, with rich gravy and claret sauce; tarts.

July

Macakarel boiled, with melted butter and herbs; fore quarter of lamb, with sallad of fresh lettuce &c.

August

Chickens or pigeons roasted, with asparagus; artichokes, with melted butter.

September

A grouse, with gravy sauce; wild ducks with gravy sauce and onion sauce; apple pie.

October

Cod's head, with shrimp and oyster sauce; knuckle of veal and bacon, and greens.

November

A roasted goose with gravy, and apple sauce, and mustard; cod's head, with oyster sauce; minced pies.

December

Ham, and fowls roasted, with greens and gravy sauce; gravy soup, fresh salmon, garnished with whiting or trout fried, and with anchovy sauce.








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