Chocolate Sauce

Glaceed Walnuts
Fruit
Black Coffee

IV

_Elaborate Formal Dinner. Ten Courses_

Fruit Cocktail
Oysters on Half-shell
Brown Bread-and-Butter Sandwiches
Quartered Lemons

Clear Bouillon, Oysterettes
Radishes
Celery

Boiled Halibut
Potato Balls in Parsley Sauce
Sweet Pickles

Cauliflower au Gratin

Braised Turkey or Capon
Bread Stuffing
Giblet Gravy
Duchesse Potatoes
Spinach

Crystallized Ginger
Salted Pecans
Pineapple Fritters, Lemon Sauce

Granite of Cider and Apples

Cutlets of Duck, with Chopped Celery

Orange Salad

Pumpkin Pie
Raisin and Cranberry Tarts
Chocolate Parfait
Almond Cakes

Nuts
Raisins
Bonbons
Candied Orange Peel
Black Coffee

Concerning Breakfasts

By Alice E. Whitaker

A certain Englishman who breakfasted with the Washington family in 1794
wrote of the occasion: "Mrs. Washington, herself, made tea and coffee
for us. On the table were two small plates of sliced tongue and dry
toast, bread and butter, but no broiled fish, as is the general custom."
However sparing the mistress of Mt. Vernon might have been, it was the
usual custom in old times to eat a hearty breakfast of meat or fish and
potato, hot biscuits, doughnuts, griddle cakes and sometimes even pie
was added. A section of hot mince pie was always considered a fitting
ending to the winter morning meal in New England, at least.

When Charles Dickens was in the United States, in 1842, he stopped at
the old Tremont house in Boston. In his "American Notes," which followed
his visit to this country, he wrote critically of the American
breakfast, as follows: "And breakfast would have been no breakfast
unless the principal dish were a deformed beefsteak with a great flat
bone in the center, swimming in hot butter and sprinkled with the very
blackest of pepper."

For a time my household included a colored cook, who, according to local
custom, went to her own home every night. Invariably before leaving she
came to me with the short and abrupt question, "What's for?" This
experience taught me the difficulty of planning breakfasts off hand.
More than one beginner in housekeeping wonders whether a light break