The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-12-31
A Dinner THAT Cost
Fifty Dollars a PLATE.
Philadelpha's Greatest Triumph i'm the
Art of Prandlal Entertaimen

EIGHTH COURSE.
Roast:
Spring chicken on toast. capons. bardet.
Spring lamb. mint sauce.
Wines:
Extra sparkling Nosellc. SCharZbcIg.
Vintage of 1Sif-Spccial importation from
the cellars of Dicnhard &
Jordan, Coblenz
NINTH COURSE.
Pieces montceS:
Swiss basket.
Punicr en- nOught
Cottage basket.
Vase monte, with fruit glace.
Flora's Offering.
Moorish fountain.
Indian temple.
Vegetables:
White potatoes, Green peas,
Sweet potatoes, spinach,
Corn. tauliilOwer.
lIominy. Asparagus
Tomatoes. Dressed lettuce,
Celery.
TENTH COURSE.
coup du millieu.
Sorbets au vim de Tokay.
ELEVENTH COURSE.
Jack sniuc. Plover.
Teal duck, Rice birds.
Celery hearts. Saratoga potatoes.
WOOdCOck,
Wines:
Oeil de pcrdriX.
TWELFTH COURSE.
Diamond-back terrapin.
Roast potatoes.
Wine:
Rare old Amontillado pale sherry
Specially selected and bottled in Europe.
Imported October. 1850.
THIRTEENTH COURSE.
Pastry:
Lemon pudding.
Peach pie.
COCoanut pudding.
Charlotte Russo.
GateauX u la Parisicnne.
Mcringuc de pOmme.
GatcauX a la NCpoitaine.
Meringue a la creme.
WATERS la Francaise.
Gclle au MADEIRA.
BlanC-mange.
Italian cream.
GatcauX allcmands.
Wines:
Sherry-Rarc old mellow cask wine pale,
of Duff. Gordon n Co.
Madcira-Soft Old; vintage of 1911.
Port-Burmeistcr, extra, special importa-
lion.
FOURTEENTH COURSE.
Confectionery:
Mint drops Chinese almonds,
Cream candy. Cream drops
Celery seed. Nougat de Provence
Raspberry balls Port wine drops.
Burned almonds. Brandy drops.
FIFTEENTH COURSE.
Ice cream and water ices:
Biscuit glacc, Lemon,
Cream au burre, Orange water ice.
Caramel Punch a la romaine
Vanilla. Champagne frappa I
Harlequin. Ia glace.
strawberry.
SIXTEENTH COURSE.
Fruits and nuts
Apples. Walnuts.
oranges, Almonds
Figs, Pecan nuts,
Raisins, I'ilberts,
Rhenish-Soft old, very rare extra Cabi.
Marcobrunn of 1894, specially obtained
from the cellar Of the Duke
of Nassau. Medoc.
Montrose of 1910. very choice and delicate
bottled in 1914. and specially selected
from the stock of Vale & CO., at Bor.
deauN.
SEVENTEENTH COURSE.
cafe no.t.
Iiqueurs:
MarasChinO
CuraCoe.
THE COST
There the thirty sat until sunrise the
next morning. The feast had lastet
exactly twelve hours. After the mid
die of the course there had bee,
brought in Tokay wine frozen. II wa!
then something of an innovation. The
New Workers asked why it was served
Well" said Parkinson, what was tn,
effect?" 1T cooled our palates, whet
ted our appetities anew, and we wen
at it again with all the zest of a fire. 81
start" such, gentleman" said Par
kinson, was my precise purpose il
introducing it," Joseph Head, tht
proprietor of the famous Mansion
House. a man of fine taste, an Eng
lishman, who had prepared many {
dinner since the days when the Firs
city Troop entertained Lafayette a
his hotel, and whose private Res
taurant and Club House" at Seventh
and Walnut streets is still remembered
by few old men, who We're Of tn
heauX and dandies of two generation
| ago, was certainly a competent Judge
| It was Heads deliberate judgment tina
| neither in England nor i'm Americi
| have | ever seen so superb a banquet
and | never EXPECT to see. nor do
think any of YOU will ever see, sucl
another" One of the New Yorker
| went straightway back the next da.
to Charles Delmonico then in the be
ginning Of his fame as a Swiss maste
| Of the art gastronomic. He threN
| down the copy of his bill of fare
There Charley; go to Philadelphi
| and learn to set up a dinner" 500
! ii VAS reported here that "a $1,000 din
ner" had been given at Parl;inson's; !
was the talk of the day: but the fac
was that it had cost 81 800. or $50
plate, and that Parkinson, i'm his Phila
lclphia pride, had been unwilling I
make even a penny Of profit in orde
that he might enjoy the honor of ton
pLng New York
SLEIGHBELLS IN A COFFIN.
should the Dead Come to Life The
Will Ring.
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