Dinner Menus for the Coronation of Tsar Alexander III

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

• CatM

  August 7, 2011 at 3:41 pm · Reply

  Translations, please!

• Sergey

  August 8, 2011 at 7:39 pm · Reply

  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, 2011 at 3:30 am · Reply

  there always has to be an aspic

• Jim

  August 18, 2011 at 5:37 pm · Reply

  I’m surprised to see “Icecream”.

• Jaime

  August 22, 2011 at 3:06 am · Reply

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

• CatM

  August 22, 2011 at 5:20 pm · Reply

  Thank you Sergei!

• Susan

  October 13, 2011 at 2:17 pm · Reply

  Thanks for the translations Sergey! Ice cream and pineapple were the height of luxury back then. What I find interesting is that except for a couple of items (roast game and borsch, particularly) this is a very French menu. I wouldn’t be surprised if the chefs cooking this were from Paris! And yes, there’s always an aspic

• Paul C.

  October 15, 2011 at 2:50 pm · Reply

  Thanks for the translation. Now I am hungry.

• Daria.

  January 8, 2012 at 10:23 pm · Reply

  Surprising to see not ice cream, but pineapple.

• Martha Sherwood

  April 12, 2012 at 5:14 pm · Reply

  Ice cream not particularly a luxury item in Russia or the northeastern US in the 19th century – cranked ice cream freezers using stored lake ice and rock salt were invented around 1810. It was definitely a luxury item in climates without a cold winter.