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Smithville Inn

Date
1970-07-10
Restaurant
Smithville Inn
Physical description
51x33cm; insert measures 30.5x23cm
Currency
Dollars

Pages

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  2. Page 2

Dishes

Page 1

Frosted Fruit Shrub$0.40
Fresh Fruit Cup with Cranberry Sherbet A'Top$0.50
Tomato Juice with Sour Cream, Chives$0.35
Hearty Soup of Clipper Days$0.45
Chowder of Great Bay Clams$0.60
Chowder of Great Bay Clams$0.60
Plate of Snapper Soup$0.85
Eight Cherrystone Clams$1.75
Large Shrimp Cocktail$2.25
Four of Clams and Four of Oysters$1.85
Eight Oysters, Absecon Salts$1.95
Baked "Stuff'd" Clams in their Shells, with Crabmeat, Shrimp and Clam$1.75
Homemade Preserves
Homemade Relishes
Bowl of Garden Things, Scallions, Cherry Tomatoes, Carrots, Sweet Peppers and such
The Proper Potato
Abundance of Vegetables
Salad, choice of dressing
Hot Homemade Bread
Sweet Dough Bread
Country Butter
Hot Good Coffee
Chicken "Pye" with Dumplings$5.25
Baked Boneless Chicken with Almonds and Apple Dressing$4.95
Roasted Young Turkey, all White Meat, Old Fashioned Corn Bread Dressing, Giblet Gravy and Jersey Cranberry Jelly$4.95
Roasted Abescon Duckling, One Half a large one and a very fine Wild Rice Dressing$6.50
Braised Shortribs of Very Prime Beef served with Homemade Horseradish Sauce$6.50
Tenderloin Tips with Homemade Noodles and Excellent Wine Sauce$6.50
Baked Stuffed Pork Chop with a Roasted New Jersey Yam$5.95
Prime Ribs of Beef, heavy cut with Natural Juices$6.95
"Beefstake", Chopped and Broiled$4.95
Filet Mignon$7.95
Prime Sirloin Steak, boneless$7.95
Boneless Jersey Flounder Stuffed with Crabmeat and Baked$6.50
Fried Very Large Shrimp$5.95
"Devilled" Crab according to an Old Leeds Point "Receipt"$5.95
Broiled Filet of Flounder$5.95
Seafood "Affayre" Broiled Lobster Tails, Fried Very Large Shrimp, Backfin Crabmeat Cake ad Absgami "Devilled" Clam$7.95
A Plateful of Tender Lobster Tails$8.95
Stuffed Shrimp, Largest ever, stuffed with Crabmeat that is all Backfin$6.95
A Baked Whole Maine Lobster, A Two Pound Lobster Stuffed with Lobster$10.95
Backfin Crabmeat au Gratin$6.25
Fried Onion Rings, for at least Two Persons$1.25
A Mug of Hot Chocolate with Plenty of Whipped Cream$0.45
Milk$0.25
Cola Cola$0.25
Iced tea$0.25
Iced coffee$0.25
Iced coffee$0.25
Extra Large Cocktails
Dark Lowenbrau
Draught Michelob
Heiniken Beer
Elegant Champagne Cocktail$1.00
Smithville Punch$2.25
Finest of Wines
Since the Fabulous Days of the Clipper Ships,

Page 2

Blueberry Topside-Down Cake
A Blueberry Cobbler with Whipped Cream
A Dish of Fresh Blueberries
Apple Brown Betty with Vanilla Sauce
A real Good Old Fashioned Rice Pudding
Bread Pudding with Fresh Strawberry Sauce
Vanilla ice cream
Chocolate Ice Cream
Cranberry Sherbet
Raspberry Jello with Whipped Cream
Apple Pie with Cinnamon Ice Cream$0.75
Cheesecake with Cherries Ladled A'Top$0.75
Vanilla Ice Cream with Chocolate Fudge Sauce and Plenty of Whipped Cream$0.65
Peppermint Stick Ice Cream$0.45
Cinnamon Ice Cream$0.45

Source: NYPL Digital Collections

16,525 menus · 64,352 scanned pages · 1851–2008 · uncatalogued scans

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