The San Francisco call., 1895-10-17
A CALIFORNIA BANQUET,
PREPARED BY MRS. TOUCHARD
FROM PRODUCTIONS OF
THIS STATE.
SOIREE AND MUSICALE PREcFDF
THE FEAsT-FRUIT AND WINE
DISPLAY.

Inc California banquet was held last
evening at the California Hotel. 1t was
designed to exhibit not only the vast re-
sources OF this State in regard to its eata-
bic products, but also to show how palata-
bic these products could be made under
the direction of an adept in the culinary art.
Previous TO the banquet proper, which
took place at 10 P. NJ, musicale and re-
ception were held.
Hugh Craig bade the guests welcome to
the good things which had been set for
their entertainment. He outlined in a
short address the objects for which the
California banquet had been prepared
Like everything else at the banquet last
evening, the music was Californian and
rendered by artists from California Misses
Doyle, Cressy, White and Reynolds gave
Lullaby" as quartet. Following this
was piano solo, and Mrs. Paxton, by
special request, gave because 1 Love
You, Dear" Miss Ruth White enter
tanned with song. A soprano and tenor
duet from Stewards ''Bluff King Hail. was
well received. Miss Daisy Cressy rendered
Howard's Remembrance" in creditable
manner. She was rewarded with an en-
core. August Mignon's "Recompense"
was sweetly sung by Miss Rose Adler,
which brought the musical proceedings to
a close.
The banquet then took place. The cafe
of the California aTotel, in which it was
held, was decorated in a charming man.
ner. AT the upper end of the salon the
California Bear held sway over an enor-
nous sun.
On one side, on large table, an exhibit
~ Vol IN
displayed. Prunes, plums, apricots glace
trults,, olive OIL champagne, candies,
canned fruit, clarets, ports were shown in
bewildering variety.
The menu, which occupied twenty pages
of the programme, was as follows:
Oysters, creamed; lettuce, egg sauce;
oysters. raw; cucumber Salad; artichokes;;
puf crackers; cheese; sauterne; oys.
tiers, en- eoquille; tomato salad; stewed
sherry; black halibut; potato, Parisienne;
brandy cherries; macaroni, Spanish; claret;
terrapin stew, q la Maryland; snowflake crack
ers; orange salad; aspic jelly, beef; olives:
sherry; turkey, cranberry sauce; brandy
peaches; spieed picked prunes; frijoles, Span
ish; sherry; bears meat, currant jelly: aspic
Parisienne; white wine; striped eels fried
in butter; fruit crackers; ripe olives;
stewed bananas; asparagus salad; burgundy;
chicken fricasse la sauce d'olives; celery:
cheese points; spiced picked figs; sauterne;
silver prunes; celery; reisling; roast beef
stuffed tomatoes; fried egg plant; salted wal
nuts; punch; prune ice cream; Isabe liza
grapes; chocolate cake; almonds, fruit cake;
October strawberries, pecans, oranges, choco-
late, cheese, frozen watermelon. nut jumbles,
prune soufiee conserved fruits, champagne,
watermelon, alligator pears, pomegranates,
cantaloupe, guava jelly, grape juice, olive
oil candy, raisins (white, red and black,
apples, peaches, pears, plums, bananas,
red; grapes, black; figs, black; assorted mar
malades, jellies, preserves, conserves, glazed
fruits, grape food, chocolate souff1ee, walnuts,
chestnuts, olive OIL caramels, lemonade.
Among the prominent ladies and gen.
tlemen present were:
Miss Jessie Robertson, Colonel Andrews,
Hugh Craig and wife, Mrs. G. II. Umbsen, Mrs.
Walter Taylor, Mr.. and Mrs. T. Cole, Professor
and Mrs. Knell, Miss Withrow, DR.. and Mrs
MCPHERSON, Mr. and Mrs. c. w. Ewing, Philip
Weaver. Mr.. and Mrs. Willis, Mrs. Reed, Dr.
Thomas Is, Cole, Miss Ida Boardman Hail. Miss
Ruth White. Miss Florence Hardiman Miller,
Mrs. D. Gibbons, Mr.. Elliott, Mr.. and
Mrs A. s. Hsliidie, Miss White, Mrs.
Lillian Plunkett Ferguson. Miss Hall, Miss
Tracy, DR.. and Mrs: Powers, Miss Adler,
John Parkhurst Fred Marriott, Mrs. Bucking-
nam, Mrs: Bunnell, Mrs. Florence Miller, Alex
Badlam, T. j. Crowley, S. NJ. Shortridge, Sam
D. Mayer, General S. w. Backus and wife.
Richard Freud, Colonel and Mrs Dickinson,
Mrs. Helen Gregory, Mrs Emily Pitt Stevens
Miss Augusta Knell. Mr.. and Mrs P. T. Dick.
inson, H. Z. Highton.
The dinner was a great success, and
many were the congratulations extended
to Mrs. Touchard, who inspired the idea
of the BANQUET