Author: LORD MAYOR'S DAY
Title: General Bill of Fare. Lord Mayor's Day, 1835. The Right Honourable William Taylor Copeland, M.P. Lord Mayor.
Description: W. Barry, printer, 1835. Broadside, 550 x 225 mm. with old tape repairs verso, old folds. The menu for the Lord Mayor's Day dinner held at the Guildhall. A substantial menu which included, in addition to the turtle soup and turkeys> bottles of sherbet, fish, turkey & oysters, fowl, capons, French pies, pigeon pies, hams, tongues, barons of beef, lamb, sirloins, ribs and rumps of beef, mashed and other potatoes, leverets, pheasants, geese, partridges, pea fowls, jellies, blancmanges, tartes, tourtes, almond pastry, chantilly baskets, mince pies, salads, pineapples, hot house grapes, ice cream, apples, pears, savoy cakes, walnuts, dried fruit and preserves, preserved ginger, rout cakes and chips, brandy cherries. All served with champagne, hock, claret, madeira, port and sherry.

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