Posted 4 years ago
dav2no1
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Victualling In Tavern Days
This is a replica of a bill of fare(menu) you might find traveling in colonial times.
18.5" tall x 9" wide
What?....
Definition:VICTUAL
present participle: victualling
1 - provide with food or other stores.
2- obtain or lay in food or other stores.
3- eat.
This is just a few interesting facts if you want to learn more look it up it's interesting.
Bill of Fare -vs- Menu
Bill of Fare is English and Menu is French, and up until the 1920s the use of Bill of Fare was standard. By the 1930s, menu had taken over.
By the American Revolution and earlier, most eating places(taverns, inns, coffee houses, or eating houses) provided written bill of fare.
More than a few eating places in the early Republic followed the (supposedly French) innovation of letting guests choose their dishes and pay accordingly rather than charging them a set fee for pre-chosen dishes.
At the cheapest eating places the day’s offerings were recited verbally at the door, presumably because most patrons could not read.
In the 1860s the word Menu came into use – often referred to in italics to indicate a foreign word.
By the late 1800s it was commonplace for the better hotels and restaurants to print a Menu, not Bill of Fare, for their special dinners, including those for holidays.
Bill of Fare remained in use up until roughly World War I, especially among everyday lunchrooms.
Very interesting and educational! There a a few things on the bill of fare that sound a little bit unappetizing- such as calves’ head soup and ox heart....and “bubble and squeak” might need to be followed by a dose of PeptoBismol....I must look that one up (I’m envisioning something boiled up with various pig parts). :^[
Ha ha..if you look at the paper on the back...at the bottom it tells you. And if you haven't, at least read the 1st paragraph. The lady kept a journal..funny!
Bubble and squeak beef and cabbage fried together..
Bubble and squeak sounds like something you might do after eating one of these menu items.
Lol! I’m looking at the post on my phone so it was pretty hard to see all the print....I promise I’ll do better and go back over it, with enlargement this time....I might decide to do some cooking!
I must of made Hotch-Potch many times and just didn’t know it!