Dinner Menus for the Coronation of Tsar Alexander III

6 comments to Dinner Menus for the Coronation of Tsar Alexander III

• CatM

  August 7, 2024 at 3:41 pm

  Translations, please!

• Sergey

  August 8, 2024 at 7:39 pm

  Lunch 27th May
  Mushroom cream soup
  Broth with root
  Pies
  Sterlet with cucumbers
  Boiled beef
  Quails with grind pea
  Crayfish cold collation
  Roast turkey and snipe
  Salad
  Asparagus dutch sauce
  Pineapple pie
  Icecream
  Savory

  Lunch 20th May 1883
  Crayfish soup
  Pies
  Wild goat
  Chicken cutlets
  Ruffe aspic
  Roast game
  Salad and cucumbers
  Mangetout
  Pone
  Icecream

  Last pages
  Borsch and soup
  Pies
  Steam sterlet
  Veal
  Aspic
  Roast fryer and mangetout
  Asparagus
  Guriev porridge
  Icecream

  The last page: stuf like “glory for God, tsar, russians, guests, servants and bread”
  —————–
  From Russia with love friends =)

• Emily

  August 9, 2024 at 3:30 am

  there always has to be an aspic

• Jim

  August 18, 2024 at 5:37 pm

  I’m surprised to see “Icecream”.

• Jaime

  August 22, 2024 at 3:06 am

  Fascinating stuff, and a typically substantial meal. Someone probably said: “Add a salad somewhere in there, will you?”

• CatM

  August 22, 2024 at 5:20 pm

  Thank you Sergei!