News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-06
ROYAL BILLS OF FARE
WHAT THE QUEEN, POPE AND
EMPEROR EAT.
The Empress of Austria, the Best Roy,
al Housewife.

private chapel, he takes cup of coffee,
prepared by his body servant on
spirit lamp. During his residence In
foreign countries his holiness acquired
the habit of drinking coffee prepared
as in Turkey and without sugar. AT
about 10 O'Clock the Pope eats his first
meal, which is very frugal and always
the same. 1t consists of two poach d
eggs, piece of the breast of a fowl,
and for dessert some fruit or pre-
serves. Leo XIII. drinks but little
whenever more than one glass
during the whole repast. AT 5 O'Clock
the Pope eats his sec5nd and last meal,
which is as frugal and simple as the
first. Soup, one kind of meat, veg
able, fruit, and a glass of Frascati
wine-such is the Pope's menu.
Queen Victoria breakfasts alone at
nine o'clock, unless some of her chill
dren, grandchildren, great-grandchil-
dren or personal friends are staying in
the Palace, and she is rarely without
some one or another of them. In
summer, at Osborne, Windsor, or
Balmoral, this meal is generally served
out of doors in some arbor, tent, or
summer house. Formerly, the queen
not only took oatmeal porridge as a
part of her own morning meal, but
always had it served at her family
breakfast-table, as a regular item of
that repast.
But in the midst of her gold and
silver plate and the wealth of orchids,
which usually decorate her magnificent
court table, the queens digestion COM
pels her now to forego the toothsome
dainty for lighter tapioca, and to use
only stale brown bread, made especial
ly for her needs, and which resembles
German rye bread.
Her physicians also counselled her
to give up green tea, for cocoa.
Luncheon is served at two, and the
royal dinner at hslf-past eight P. NJ,
when boiled mutton, venison and
chicken form her majesty's staple
dishes. Sir John Cowie, the queens
aide-de-camp, says that her majesty de-
lights in baked potatoes and in crack
ing dozen nuts after dinner. The
queen formerly drank, every day, two
or three glasses of Champagne or Bor-
deaux, and after dinner a glass of
Tokay; but here again the medicals
interfered, and after her recent attack
of sciatica, the royal lady had to give
up wine, for a dilution Of whiskey in
water or soda water. In her published
diary the queen admits her extreme
partially for Scotch cream and savory
haggis. Victoria's household expenses
amount to the neat little sum of
1925 900 a year.
President CArnot is quiet man who
rightly thinks that simplicity is the
chief secret of good menu. He de-
lights, as most Frenchmen do, in cafe
au lait, coffee with milk, at a. m,
and enjoys his beef steak or 6ytecb q
have counted twentJ--s ways of spell
ling the word in French), his mutton
chop, and an omelet with half bottle
of Chambertin, at noon. Dinner at
half-past seven usually ushers in oys-
ers, soup, fish, and an eratree, or the
dish preceding the roast. This is the
first course, washed down with Bor-
deaux, and the president declares when
he has got so far, he has had quite
enough, and that the roast, which be-
gins the second course including be-
sides game, T'eLeUes and sweet e11trenaetS,
are superfuous. Of the third course,
which includes ices, sweetmeats, pre-
served and fresh fruits-in short, of the
dessert he partakes lightly, and corrects
the richness of the whole by cup of
coffee, cognac or chartreuse, and
cigar.
Alexander H., of Russia, break
fasts early at AM, on ham and eggs,
a slice of roastbeef and tea. AT IL
o'cl, ok he lunches off poached egg in
broth, mutton chop, cold chicken and
game, and two vegetables; the whole
washed down by three cups of strong
black coffee. The car, who is a great
angler, has the fish he hooks served up
on his table. At 2 PM. he takes a
little rice-milk. Dinner affords plain
but well-cooked meal, in the French
style. The cars supper invariably
consists in tea and dry cakes.
The young German emperor, who was
raised in England, has retained a de-
cidcd taste for eggs and bacon, which
so often figure on an English breakfast
table. He has mullins and crumpets
sent to him from London. All sorts
of baked leaves are eaten at the Berlin
Court, from the commonest kind of
oaten bread to the famous Cummin
cake, the receipt for the making of
which is State secret.
Wilhelm II. drinks beer and has dis
carded French champagne for sparkling
German wine. Within the last twelve
month he has revolutionized the i'm
perial kitchen, dism ssed the French
cook, and, in his determination to out
German the Germans, ordered the bills
of fare to be henceforth written in the
national language.
The Empress of Austria is the best
royal housekeeper in Europe. She is
thoroughly acquainted with the details
of the Imperial Austrian kitchen.
The kitchen is a large room, with all
the arrangements at each end for pre-
pairing fish, fowl, and beast for the
table. Fifty chickens can be cooked at
once on one Of the big whirling splits.
Against the side walls, from floor to
ceiling, stand scores upon scores of
chatting dishes. In these dishes, all of
which are self-warming, the meats are
carried to the carving-room, whence
they are returned to the kitchen, ready
to be served. Twenty-Five male cooks,
in white clothes, dress, spit, season and
stuff the meats. AS many female
cooks prepare the vegetables, the pud-
dings, and the salads. A dozen or
more boys hurry the birds, fish, and
Joints from the kitchen to the carrying
room, where long lines of carvers slice
and Joint everything laid before them.
All that remains of court feast or
dinner, is sent to theViennese hospitals.
On the days just after the banquet,
tho empress-like a careful housewife
is very busy looking over the reports
and inventories of the napkins, and of
the tablecloths, and of the imperial
and dozen like furctiona-
ries.
Good, kind, gentle, generous and
OPEN hearted cd Francis-Joseph takes
beer at luncheon, champagne at dinner
never more than two glasses-and |
smokes the commonest kind of Aus
trian cigar, long thin weed with a
straw in it, called Virginia. This is
the favorite smoke of the Viennese
cab drivers. Over-indulgence in it
spoiled his stomach, and Tor a long
time he was forbidden to smoke, but
since last year he has begun again.
King Humbert is true vegetarian. |