Food Porn (an orgy, actually)

[lagilman]

Wordage accomplished, my evening reading is Cooking at Home on Rue Tatin (courtesy of quarkwiz and her Spouse). In honor of the drooling going on here, I present (from http://www.armchair.com/recipe/titanic1.html):


The First-Class Menu
As served in the first-class dining saloon of the R.M.S. Titanic on April 14, 1912

First Course
Hors D'Oeuvres
Oysters
Second Course
Consommé Olga
Cream of Barley
Third Course
Poached Salmon with Mousseline Sauce, Cucumbers
Fourth Course
Filet Mignons Lili
Saute of Chicken, Lyonnaise
Vegetable Marrow Farci
Fifth Course
Lamb, Mint Sauce
Roast Duckling, Apple Sauce
Sirloin of Beef, Chateau Potatoes
Green Pea
Creamed Carrots
Boiled Rice
Parmentier & Boiled New Potatoes
Sixth Course
Punch Romaine
Seventh Course
Roast Squab & Cress
Eighth Course
Cold Asparagus Vinaigrette
Ninth Course
Pate de Foie Gras
Celery
Tenth Course
Waldorf Pudding
Peaches in Chartreuse Jelly
Chocolate & Vanilla Eclairs
French Ice Cream

The repast was served with a different wine for each course. Following the tenth course fresh fruits and cheeses were available followed by coffee and cigars accompanied by port and, if desired, distilled spirits.

*dies. a lot. and not just from envy. no wonder the damn ship went down!*


ETA: Damn you, quarkwiz! Now I feel the need to host another dinner party. You did this on purpose, didn't you?

Comments

[lisamantchev.livejournal.com]

The woman that catered my wedding did a theme-dinner with this menu for a local historical group.

*now wants to look up Waldorf pudding!*

[lagilman]

if it's what I think it is, imagine a cross between home-made apple pie and butterscotch pudding...

*dies*

[lisamantchev.livejournal.com]

*double dies* THIS recipe looks like a cross between apple pie and *GULP* Crème Brulee.

http://cruisegourmet.com/archives/108

[quarkwiz.livejournal.com]

::whistles innocently::

No, no... but don't get rid of that big table yet, eh? :-D

Following the tenth course...

OMG. ::thud:: And I thought a meal at Keen's was a large thing.

[lagilman]

No, no... but don't get rid of that big table yet, eh? :-D

I'll make everyone eat at the kitchen table. In shifts.

(that chorba recipe is calling my name. also the salmon rillettes. and...)

[windrose.livejournal.com]

They served an abbreviated version of this at the Last Dinner On Titanic fundraiser I went to several years ago.

[lagilman]

did they have to wheel people off in barrows, after? Because that menu is scary, even assuming reasonable portion sizes (which, in those days, was not a safe assumption)

[sff-corgi.livejournal.com]

Did you know there's a food_porn comm? For exactly this kind of thing? ^_^ selenesue is the one who brought it to my attention....

[lagilman]

I know of it, yeah. But life is a little busy for communities that don't directly relate to work, alas...

(anyway, I like my pron semi-private. *grin*)