MENU
| 1. | Toilers of the Sea. (Victor Hugo.) |
| 2. | A Study in Scarlet. (Doyle.) |
| 3. | The Water Babies. (Kingsley.) |
| 4. | Between Whiles. (Helen Hunt Jackson.) |
| 5. | The Lay of the Last Minstrel. (Scott.) |
| 6. | A Dead Secret (Wilkie Collins); and Plain Tales from the Hills. (Kipling.) |
| 7. | The Desert of Ice. (Jules Verne.) |
| 8. | Leaves of Grass (Walt Whitman); and Unleavened Bread. (Grant.) |
| 9. | The Snow Image. (Hawthorne.) |
| 10. | Over the Teacups. (Holmes.) |
| 11. | Opening of a Chestnut Burr. (Roe.) |
| 12. | All's Well that Ends Well. (Shakespeare.) |
The culinary key to the luncheon is this:—
| 1. | Oysters. |
| 2. | Tomato Soup. |
| 3. | Smelts with Sauce Tartare. |
| 4. | Almonds. Radishes. Celery. |
| 5. | Eggs in Ramekins. |
| 6. | Chicken Chartreuse and Potatoes. |
| 7. | Peach Sherbet. |
| 8. | Shredded Lettuce and Crackers. |
| 9. | Ice Cream in Forms. |
| 10. | Tea. |
| 11. and 12. | Marrons and Bonbons. |
The eggs are prepared by cutting up those that have been hard boiled, seasoning them well, covering with white sauce, putting in individual baking dishes, covering with grated cheese, and browning. The chicken is minced, seasoned with salt, pepper, and a little sherry or stewed tomato, and put in a melon mould which has been buttered and lined with an inch thickness of boiled rice; then the mould is steamed for three quarters of an hour, and when done the whole is turned out on a round platter, and a tomato sauce is poured around it.
The salad is made by cutting a head of lettuce across with the scissors until leaves of grass result; mayonnaise is to be passed with this.
The ice cream is to be in forms of any sort, but the figure of a man is the most appropriate.
This luncheon may be changed from a gastronomic to a literary guessing game, either by furnishing the guests with a copy of the titles of the books without the authors, making them guess both the writer and the dish which is represented, or by furnishing the actual menu and asking the guests to give a title of a book which will suitably represent the course. In order to give opportunity for some choice in this luncheon, a slightly altered menu is also given:—