Hints for the table: or, the economy of good living / [Anon].

  • John Timbs
Date:
1838
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Credit: Hints for the table: or, the economy of good living / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tlie Czar and his party, twenty-one in number, stopped at Godaiming, where they ate; at breakfast, half a sheep, a quarter of lamb, ten pullets, twelve chickens, seven dozen of eggs, and salad in proportion, and drank three quarts of brandy, and six quarts of mulled wine: at dinner, live ribs of beef, weight three stone; one sheep, fifty-six pounds; three quarters of lamb, a shoulder and loin of veal boiled, eight pullets, eight rabbits, two dozen and a half of sack, and one dozen of claret. This bill of fare is preserved in Ballard’s Collection, in the Bodleian Library, at Oxford. Some of our own countrymen, have, however, almost rivalled the Czar of Russia and his companions. At God- aiming, and probably at the same inn that Peter patronized, two noble dukes are related to have stopped, as they in- tended, for a few minutes, while sitting in their carriages, to cat a mutton chop, which they found so good, that each of them devoured eighteen chops, and drank live bottles of claret. Lord Melcombe w as a friend and patron of James Ralph, the dramatist, but the silly blunder of a servant had nearly caused a rupture between them. Lord Melcombe, one day, ordered his servant to go to Ralph, who lived not far from his lordship at Isleworth, and take with him a card for a dinner invitation to Mr. Ralph and his wife. The servant mistook the word card for cart, and set out full speed with the latter. The supposed indignity offended the pride of Ralph, who, with great gravity, sent back the messenger and his carriage, with a long cxpostulatory letter. When Walpole invited the Chevalier Lorcnzic to dine with him at Strawberry Hill, lie gave him venison ; and, as the latter was determined to like it, he protested it was “ as good as beef.” Foote was ostentatious and vulgarly fine before his guests. As soon as the cloth was removed from the table, lie would ask, “ Does any body drink port?” If the una- nimous answer happened to be “ no,” he always called out to the servants in waiting—“ take away the ink.” I'ontenelle, who lived till within one month of 100, was
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