“This is to be a conventional letter, too, one of the bread and butter variety, the quail and dove, pigeon pie, creamed macaroni variety, for all of which much thanks, likewise for much stimulating talk, your help in planting my garden, many motor flights through brown woods, and some most charming company, including a man named Ellis and his celebrated son, the pigeon shooter.”
A cook of roughly the same moment, setting down the same dish.
Boiled Turkey and Vase of Boiled Ham. Celery Sauce. Flowers. Tongue, garnished. Saddle of Mutton. _Third Course._ Charlotte Pheasants, Apricot Jam à la Parisienne. removed by Tartlets. Plum-pudding. Jelly. Cream. Vase of Cream. Flowers. Jelly. Snipes, removed by Pommes à la Condé.
Sources: The passage is from Franklin K. Lane, The Letters of Franklin K. Lane, Personal and Political, free to read in full at Project Gutenberg. The recipe is from Beeton, The Book of Household Management of 1861, also free in full. Both are in the public domain in the United States. The binding above is ours — burgundy cloth, sheaf stamp.