Posted on 05/06/2021 10:54:44 AM PDT by mylife
From Irish stew to grilled kidneys and boiled fowl, a menu dating back more than 100 years has been found during renovation work at a cafe.
Workmen peeling back old walls discovered the delicate piece of culinary history at the eatery in Liverpool.
The menu, from Wednesday 15 January 1913, is from the former Yamen Cafe in Bold Street.
Staff at the cafe standing at the same site said it had "blown their minds".
The menu offers a selection of appetising "refreshments, luncheons and afternoon teas".
The cafe which is currently based at the site, called LEAF, now plans to recreate some of the dishes in tribute to the Yamen.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
Menu reads like it is straight out of Escoffier’s cookbook.
Well, nowadays it’s artificial Irishmen...........
I’ll have the herring melt.
thanks
See what happens when you raise the minimum wage.
I’ll have a piece without too much rat in it
smelt melt...
And float your currency off the gold standard.
Back then I believe that gold was $35/oz.
“d” means “pence,” I think
£1 pound in 1913 equals £118.36 pounds today.
Unless that 1/ is a shilling or less which equates to 1/20th of a £.
Then too, I could be all messed up on this.
Interesting.
It could be a successful menu today.
In Britain.
Yes, it does. It stood for denarius. “Penny” is still a standard of measure used for nails in the US, abbreviated as “d”.
I want chump chops!!
Perhaps restaurant dining was much more expensive back then than it is today. Perhaps it was only an upper-class thing, and members of the lower classes simply couldn’t do it.
True that, but a 118 pound meal where the average wage was almost that per year and only for professionals like engineers - would have needed a lot of people with salaries higher than that. I bet it was shillings not Pounds.
“Perhaps it was only an upper-class thing, and members of the lower classes simply couldn’t do it.”
A sit down restaurant today is out of reach for the majority in the US. At least if it has steak on the menu.
And I’m not talking about Fridays or Dennys.
Expect to spend at least $80 for two, without wine.
I once spent $250 at Mortons for two with wine. Of course it was a very good meal.
But it was one I could have replicated at home for about $100.
re chump chops: I had a good source of lamb in Tx and this is the bomb, emulsify olive oil, Dijon mustard, cracked black pepper, crushed garlic and finely chopped rosemary
marinate the lamb in that and cook med rare
A £ today is worth about $1.40, so that's about $11, which is actually a pretty good price for a decent fish dinner I suppose, maybe even a little low. But this menu is for something like a lunch counter, so that's pretty much comparable.
Oh yes, I agree. $80 for two would be for a restaurant just one click about Denny's, I think. There's a "nice" restaurant in a hoity-toity college town near me where its more like $120 for two.
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