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Waldorf Astoria

Date
1915-01-01
Restaurant
Waldorf Astoria
Currency
Dollars

Pages

  1. Page 1
  2. Page 2
  3. Page 3
  4. Page 4

Dishes

Page 2

Casaba Melon$0.50
Bananas$0.20
Fried Eggs$0.30
Malaga grapes$0.40
Tokay Grapes$0.40
Apple$0.15
Newtown Pippin Apple$0.15
Spitzenberg Apple$0.15
Grapefruit$0.35
Comice Pear$0.25
California Orange$0.15
Sliced pineapple$0.25
Orange Juice$0.20 – $0.35
Hawaiian Pineapple Juice$0.20 – $0.35
Baked Apple$0.25
Stewed prunes$0.25
Apple Sauce$0.25
Stewed Peach$0.30
Stewed Pear$0.30
Stewed rhubarb$0.25
Cream, with stewed fruit, extra$0.10
Preserved Stewed Fruits$0.25
Individual Home Made Marmalade$0.25
Pineapple, Grapefruit or Orange Marmalade$0.20
Orange Blossom Honey$0.25
Satsuma Plums$0.35
Honey in the Comb$0.25
Pineapple, Pear, Peach, Fig, Strawberry or Quince Preserves$0.25
Crab Apple or Currant Jelly$0.25
Skinless Figs in Syrup$0.30
Individual Grape Jelly$0.30
Fruit Melange$0.25
Old-Fashioned Buckwheat Cakes$0.25
Pickled Peach$0.30
Brandied Peach, Pineapple, Pear, Cherries or Figs$0.30
Blackberry, Raspberry, Strawberry, Apricot or Peach Jam$0.20
Southern Waffles$0.25
Wheat, Rice or Corn Cales$0.25
Plain toast$0.15
Dipped Toast$0.20
Amsterdam Toast$0.20
Milk toast$0.20
Cinnamon Buns$0.15
English Muffins$0.15
Zwieback$0.15
Butter Crescents$0.15
Pop-Overs$0.15
Cream toast$0.35
Toasted crumpets$0.20
Brioches$0.15
Bread or Rolls and Butter Per Person$0.10
All Cereals with Milk$0.30
all Cereals with Cream$0.35
Oatmeal
Puffed rice
Corn Flakes
Grape Nuts
Wheatena
Fried hominy$0.20
Hominy
Triscuit
Baltimore Hominy
Boiled rice
Force
Indian meal mush
Shredded Wheat
Boiled eggs$0.25
Shirred Eggs$0.30
Shirred Eggs with Brown Butter$0.35

Page 3

Salt mackerel$0.50
Fried Scallops$0.45
Perch$0.35
Spanish mackerel$0.35
Smoked Salmon$0.40
Kippered Herring$0.50
Finnan Haddie$0.40
Fresh Mackerel$0.75
Halibut$0.40
Fresh Salmon$0.40
Trout$0.50
Fillet of Sole$0.40
Weakfish$0.35
English Bloater$0.30
Kingfish$0.45
Codfish Cake$0.30
Codfish in Cream$0.40
Fresh Codfish$0.35
Whitefish$0.35
Bluefish$0.40
Sea bass$0.45
Scrod$0.60
Fried smelts$0.40
Double Tenderloin$1.50
Beefsteak$1.00
Beefsteak, Minute$0.90
Mutton Chop$0.40
Sweetbread$0.65
Broiled Chicken (half)$1.00
Garniture$0.20
bacon$0.25
Garniture$0.15
Broiled Ham$0.35
Lamb Chops$0.45 – $0.80
English mutton chop$0.75
Tenderloin$0.90
Sirloin Steak$1.50
Salisbury Steak$0.90
Pork Chop$0.35
Veal Chop$0.40
Squab Chicken (half)$0.80
Virginia Ham$0.50
Virginia bacon$0.30
Irish Bacon$0.50
Heart's Delight Ham$0.35
Beech-Nut Bacon$0.30
Veal Kidney$0.60
Chicken hash$1.00
Calf's liver$0.30
Calf's Brains$0.30
Lamb Hash$0.85
Corned Beef Hash$1.00
Chipped Beef in Cream$0.40
country sausages$0.35
deerfoot sausages$0.35
Spare Ribs$0.35
Sausage Cake$0.35
pig's feet$0.35
Kidneys in brochette$0.40
Stewed Kidneys$0.60
Honey Comb Tripe$0.25
Heart's Delight Sausage or Sausage Cake$0.35
Philadelphia Scrapple$0.35
Blood Pudding$0.35
Paille Potatoes$0.20
Saute Potatoes$0.20
Hashed browned potatoes$0.20
Baked (1) or Boiled (2) Potatoes$0.15
Potatoes Lyonnaise$0.20
Stewed potatoes$0.20
Julienne potatoes$0.20
Hashed Cream Potatoes$0.20
George Washington Coffee$0.25
Postum$0.35
Special Coffee$0.25
Coffee with Milk$0.25
Coffee with Cream$0.25
Instant Postum$0.25
Kumvas$0.25
Briarcliff or Walker Gordon Milk, pint$0.20
Buttermilk, pint$0.15
Horlick's Malter Milk$0.25
Cocoa, Broma, Chocolate with whipped cream$0.30
Extra Special Heavy Cream$0.15
English Breakfast, Oolong or Ceylon Tea with cream$0.35
Apollinaris$0.15 – $0.40
Johannis$0.25 – $0.40

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