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Adams' Restaurant

Date
1914-05-26
Restaurant
Adams' Restaurant
Physical description
28x17cm folded; 28x34cm open
Currency
Dollars

Pages

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Dishes

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Oyster Stew$0.25
Oyster Fry$0.25
Regular Chicken Dinner Sunday$0.50
Large Fry (oysters)$0.35
Cherrystone Clams$0.20 – $0.30
Little Neck clams, half shell$0.15
Clam cocktail$0.25
Cup of Clam Broth$0.20
Clam Fry$0.25
Consomme, Noodles$0.10
Cream of New Tomatoes$0.10
Fried Soft Shell Crabs, Tartar Sauce$0.35
Steamed Clams, Shore Style$0.30
Little Neck Clam Fry with Bacon$0.25
Fried Sea Bass, Baked Potatoes$0.20
BROILED NORTH RIVER SHAD$0.25
Broiled Bluefish, Maitre d'Hotel$0.25
Steamed Finnan Haddie$0.25
Half Cold Lobster, Sliced Tomatoes$0.35
Lobster a la Newburg en Casserole$0.50
Broiled Live Lobster, Butter Sauce$0.50
Planked Porterhouse$0.75 – $1.25
Baked Corned Ham and New Cabbage$0.25
Roast Long Island Duck. Stewed Prunes$0.40
Roast Tenderloin o Beef, fresh Mushroom Sauce$0.35
Broiled Fresh Mushrooms$0.25
Turkey Croquettes, Fresh Mushroom Sauce, New Asparagus$0.25
Baked Individual Beefsteak Pie$0.20
Potted Beef with Spaghetti$0.20
Veal Cutlet Breaded, New String Beans$0.25
Sweetbread Saute, Green Peas. on Toast$30.00
Boiled Irish Bacon, New Spinach, Boiled New Potatoes$25.00
Fresh Lobster Salad$35.00
Chicken salad$25.00
Hamburger Steak, Smothered Onions, Fried Sweet Potatoes$25.00
Chicken Patties, Green Peas, one (two)$20.00 – $30.00
Roast Prime Ribs of Beef, Baked Beans (Extra Cut)$30.00 – $40.00
Boiled Ham and Baked Beans$20.00
Brown Bread and Baked Beans$15.00
Corn Fritters and Beechnut Bacon, Maple Syrup$25.00
Corn Omelette$20.00
Green Pea Omelette$20.00
Minced Ham and Scrambled Eggs, String Beans$25.00
New Garden Spinach and Hard Boiled Egg$15.00
Fresh Asparagus on Toast, Cream Sauce$15.00
Cold Sliced Chicken and Ham, Sliced Tomatoes$40.00
Cold Corned Beef, Potato Salad$20.00
Cold Sliced Ox-tongue, Potato Salad$25.00
Cold Boiled Ham, Potato Salad$20.00
Cold Roast Prime Ribs of Beef, Potato Salad$20.00
Cold Roast Leg of Spring Lamb, Potato Salad$25.00
Asparagus salad$20.00
Lettuce Salad$10.00
Queen olives$10.00
Fresh Lobster Salad$40.00
Sliced Tomatoes$10.00
Egg Salad$20.00
Chicken salad$30.00
Lettuce and Tomatoes$15.00
SLICED CUCUMBERS$10.00
Boiled Bermuda onions$5.00
SLICED BERMUDA ONIONS$5.00
Fresh Asparagus, Butter or Cream Sauce$15.00
New Spinach (with Egg)$10.00 – $15.00
boiled new potatoes$5.00
Stewed Corn$5.00
Stewed tomatoes$5.00
GREEN PEAS$10.00
Fried Egg Plant$10.00
Fresh String Beans$10.00
Fresh Rhubarb Pie$5.00
Fresh Strawberry Pie$5.00
Fresh Pineapple Pie$5.00
Apple Pie (a la Mode)$5.00 – $10.00
Chipped Fresh Pineapple$5.00
Banana Layer Cake$5.00 – $10.00
Bread and Butter Pudding$5.00
Cold Strawberry Blanc Mange$5.00
Crushed Strawberries and Ice Cream$10.00
Old-fashioned strawberry short cake$10.00
Strawberry short cake$10.00
Strawberries and Cream$15.00
Rice Pudding (a la Mode)$5.00 – $10.00
Sliced Bananas and Whipped Cream$5.00
Cup Custard$5.00
Sliced Bananas and Ice Cream$10.00
Stewed fresh rhubarb$5.00
Half Grape Fruit (whole)$10.00 – $15.00
Stewed prunes$5.00
Fruit Jelly and Whipped Cream$10.00
Vanilla ice cream$10.00
Sliced Orange$5.00
Neapolitan ice cream$10.00
fresh strawberry ice cream$10.00
Cream Cheese$10.00
ROQUEFORT CHEESE$10.00
Tea, Coffee, Milk or Cocoa$5.00
Pot of Coffee and Cream$10.00
Cup of Instant Postum$5.00
Glass of Buttermilk$5.00
Iced tea$5.00
Iced coffee$5.00
German fried$5.00
Potatoes hashed in cream$10.00
Au Gratin Potatoes$10.00
Lyonnaise Potatoes$5.00
Raw French Fried Potatoes$10.00
French fried potatoes$5.00
fried Sweet Potatoes$10.00
Side Dish Potatoes$5.00
Dry Toast with Orders$5.00
Garcia Grande (Clear Havana)$0.05 – $0.25
Bowl of Boiled Rice and Milk$0.10
Crackers and Milk$0.10
Graham Crackers and Milk$0.10
Shredded Wheat and Milk$0.10
Uneeda Biscuits and Milk$0.10
Grape Nuts and Milk$0.10
Force and Milk$0.10
Lettuce and Tomato Sandwich$0.10
Sardine Sandwich$10.00
Salmon Sandwich$10.00
Sea Foam Biscuit, Currant Jelly and Cream Cheese$10.00
Cold Sliced Chicken, Sliced Tomatoes$0.40
Cold Roast Prime Rib Beef (Extra Cut)$0.30 – $0.35
Cold Roast Top Sirloin of Beef$0.25
Cold Boiled Ham and Potato Salad$0.25
Cold Corned Beef and Potato Salad$0.25
Cold Roast Pork and Potato Salad$0.30
Cold Roast Lamb and Potato Salad$0.30
French Sardines, Per Box$0.25
Lobster salad$0.40 – $0.75
Chicken salad$0.25 – $0.55
COMBINATION SALAD$0.25
Lettuce Salad$0.15
Asparagus salad$0.20
SLICED CUCUMBERS$0.10
Potato salad$0.10
Salmon Salad$0.25
White Cabbage and Onion Salad$0.15
Sliced Tomatoes$0.10
Lettuce and Tomatoes$0.15
Lettuce Salad with Egg$0.15
Mayonnaise$0.05
Sirloin Steak$0.30
Top Sirloin$0.40
Double Sirloin$0.80
Bone Sirloin Steak$0.45
Planked Delmonico Steak$0.70 – $1.25
Family Sirloin, For Three$1.00
Porterhouse Steak, Single, with Mushrooms$0.75
Double Porterhouse Steak, for two$1.15
Family porterhouse$150.00
Tenderloin Steak with Onions$0.40
Extra Tenderloin Steak$0.65 – $0.75
Steak a la Tartare with Egg$0.40
Lamb Chops$0.30 – $0.40
English Mutton Chop with Bacon$0.45
Mutton Chops$0.25
Pork Chops$0.30
Pork Tenderloin, Breaded$0.35
Veal Cutlet, Breaded, Tomato Sauce$0.25
Round Bone Veal Cutlet, Breaded$0.35
Round Bone Veal Cutlet, Plain$0.40
Broiled Lamb Kidneys on Toast 25 with Bacon$0.30
liver and bacon$0.25
Liver with Onions$0.25
Corned Beef Hash$0.20
Hamburger Steak with Onions$0.25
Chicken a la Maryland$0.60
Fried or Broiled Ham, Beechnut$0.25
Whole Broiled Chicken on Toast$1.00
Half Broiled Chicken on Toast$0.50
Rasher of Bacon$10.00
Yorkshire Buck$35.00
Golden buck$40.00
Two Shirred Eggs$20.00
Two Boiled or Fried Eggs$15.00
Plain Omelette, Two Eggs (Three)$15.00 – $25.00
Two Scrambled Eggs on Toast$20.00
Ham omelette$25.00
Two Poached Eggs on Toast$20.00
Bacon Omelette$0.25
Tomato Omelette$25.00
Ham and Eggs (Beechnut)$25.00 – $35.00
Bacon and Eggs, Beechnut$0.25 – $0.35
Parsley Omelette$25.00
Scrambled Eggs with Ham$30.00
Mushroom Omelette$30.00
Scrambled Eggs with Bacon$30.00
Minced Ham and Scrambled Eggs$25.00
Chicken Omelette$30.00
Cheese Omelette$25.00
Corn Omelette$25.00
Spanish omelette$30.00
Jelly omelette$25.00
French Pea Omelette$25.00
French pancake$25.00
French Toast$20.00
Milk Toast (with Cream)$15.00 – $25.00
Club$25.00
Lettuce and Tomato Sandwhich$10.00
Roast beef$10.00
Chicken$15.00
Fried Ham$10.00
Fried Ham$10.00
Egg$10.00
Cheese$10.00
Fried Ham and Egg$15.00
Sardine$15.00
Extra Tenderloin Steak with Onions$0.75
Extra Tenderloin Steak with Mushrooms$0.80
Welsh rarebit$0.25
Tenderloin Steak with Mushrooms$0.45
Clam Fry with Bacon$0.35
Steamed Haddie Fry, Center Cut$0.30
Broiled Bluefish, Maitre d'Hotel, Center Cut$0.30
BROILED NORTH RIVER SHAD WITH BEECHNUT BACON$0.35
Top Sirloin with Onions$0.45
Top Sirloin with Mushrooms$0.50
Bone Sirloin Steak with Onions$0.50
Bone Sirloin Steak with Mushrooms$0.55
Hamburger Steak with Mushrooms$0.30
Corned beef hash with egg$0.25
Broiled Fresh Mushrooms with Bacon$0.35

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Peaches and cream$15.00
Half grape fruit$10.00
Baked Apple$5.00
Whole Orange$5.00
Wheat Cakes or Buckwheat Cakes with Maple Syrup$10.00
Baked Apple with Cream$0.10
Apple Sauce$0.05
Stewed prunes$0.05
Sliced Hawaiian Pineapple$0.10
Sliced Bananas$0.05
Sliced Bananas with Cream$0.10
Sliced Orange$0.10
Home=made Grape Jelly$0.05
Imported Marmalade$0.10
Bowl of Force$0.10
Bowl of Force with Cream$0.15
Shredded Wheat$0.10
Shredded Wheat with Cream$0.15
Oatmeal$0.10
oatmeal with cream$0.15
Pitcher of Pure Cream$0.05
Coffee and Rolls$0.10
Grape Nuts$0.10
Grape Nuts with Cream$0.15
Cream toast$0.15
Milk toast$0.15
Crackers and Milk$0.10
Glass Half and Half$0.10
Coffee and Rolls with Small Order of Cereal$0.15
Small Order of Cereal with Order$0.05
Fried Mush and Egg$0.20
Fried Mush and Egg with Bacon$0.25
Veal Cutlet, breaded$0.25
Small Sirloin Steak, French Fried Potatoes$0.25
Small Sirloin Steak with Two Fried Eggs$0.40
Tenderloin Steak$0.40
Tenderloin Steak with Mushrooms$0.45
Hamburger Steak$0.20
Hamburger Steak with Mushrooms or Onions$0.25
Two Lamb Chops on Toast, French Fried Potatoes$0.25
One Lamb Chop and Beechnut Bacon$0.25
Broiled Lamb Kidneys and Bacon on Toast$0.30
Fried Liver with Onions$0.20
Fried Liver with Bacon$0.25
Corned Beef Hash, Poached Egg$0.20
Fried Country Sausage$0.20
Fried Country Sausage and Wheat Cakes$0.25
Broiled Beechnut Ham$0.25
Fried Beechnut Bacon$0.25
Minced Ham and Scrambled Eggs$0.20
Two Pork Chops$0.25
Boiled eggs$0.15 – $0.20
Fried Eggs$0.15 – $0.20
Two Poached Eggs on Toast$0.20
Plain Omelette$0.15 – $0.20
Tomato Omelette$0.20
Mushroom Omelette$0.25
Spanish omelette$0.25
Bacon and eggs$0.25 – $0.35
Ham and eggs$0.25 – $0.35
Fruit or Cereal with Meat or Egg Orders$0.20
Fruit and Cereal or Wheat Cakes with Meat or Egg Orders$0.25
Chipped Fresh Pineapple
Sliced Banana
Baked Apple
Apple Sauce
Stewed prunes
Orange
Sliced Orange
Two boiled eggs
Two Fried Eggs
Two Poached Eggs
Two Scrambled Eggs
Fried Mush and Egg
Fried Sausages
Fried Bacon
Fried Ham
Corned Beef Hash
Plain Omelette
Fried Bacon and One Egg
One Lamb Chop
One Pork Chop
Fried Liver and Onions
Hamburger Steak
Force
Shredded Wheat
Grape Nut
Oatmeal
Corn Flakes
Pot of Tea, Coffee, Cup of Cocoa or Glass of Milk
Boiled, French Fried or German Fried Potatoes with All Orders
Choice, Hot Rolls or Dry or Buttered Toast
Pot of Coffee (Our Own Special Blend)
Tetley's Celebrated Teas - English Breakfast, Ceylon, Mixed or Oolong

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