Caption: "Consomme isn't a meal! You said you'd buy me a meal, Jerry!"
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 ...
Perhaps they rotated menu items by days of the week, and had the menus printed up in advance.
Looking at the Irish Stew, priced at 1 shilling (in decimal money: 5 pence), implies a price inflation of about 100 to 120 times since 1913.
“/” denotes a shilling.
Food, not menus.
‘Kay - then shilling it is, 1/20th of a Pound.
Wow, so a dollar was really quite a lot of money once.
I recall that a Model 'T' Ford was something like $850, which would have been 42.5 ounces of gold? Wow. It's more than $1800/oz right now. I thought Henry Ford's idea was to price the car low enough so that one of his workers could afford one.
The Model 'T' came out in 1914, well before FDR.
Tuppen is a wanna be detective on the Britbox show Pardners in Crime
No, there were no dishes for a pound. 1/ = one shilling.
There were very eligible young people in Jane Austin's novels that were "getting twelve hundred a year." Now that number makes a lot more sense.
Been through that in previous posts.
LOL....I was going to post “What a bag of bird feed cost” :-)
Chicken cutlets and spaghetti sounds intriguing.
chicken parmesan
Bread had to have been cheaper than 9 cents in 1913. I remember buying a loaf of wonder bread for a dime in the 1950s.
Chicken cutlets and spaghetti sounds intriguing.
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Early Filipino fast-food grub. (They serve spaghetti and chicken at McDonald’s and KFC)
Lots of apparent French influence on restaurant cooking.
Is Wonder bread?
I had doubts about that too, but I looked up "price of a loaf of bread in 1910" and Google said it was 7 cents, which I figured was close enough.
Wasn't the whole point of Wonder Bread that it was made super cheap by injecting air into it instead of making it rise with yeast, or some such thing? The bread in 1913 would have been actual bread, presumably.
Caption: "Consomme isn't a meal! You said you'd buy me a meal, Jerry!"
Get a sandwich! stock up buddy boy! this is it!
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