SS Bremen Luncheon Menu - 1 August 1937

Front Cover of a Vintage Luncheon Menu from Sunday, 1 August 1937 on board the SS Bremen of the North German Lloyd featured Loin of Pork in Cider - Candied sweet Potatoes, Mousselines of Chicken à la Patti, and Cold Danish Pudding, Vanilla Sauce for dessert. GGA Image ID # 1dd740282d

 

Menu Items

Lunch à la Carte

Hors-d’œuvre

• Grapefruit
• Baby Shrimp Cocktail
• Eggs Frou-Frou
• Spanish Fish Salad
• Sauerkraut
• Calf’s Foot Salad Clärens
• Tomato Marseillaise
• Canapés Mosaïque
• Stuffed Lobster Shears
• Dominos of Goose Liver
• Imported Salami
• Swedish Appetizers
• Chow-Chow
• Sprats in Tomatoes
• Sardines in Oil
• Herb Sardines in Oil
• Smoked Eel
• Bismarck Herring
• Herb Anchovies

Cold Dishes

• Poached Rhine Salmon, Caviar Sauce
• Brook Trout Suédoise
• Prime Ribs of Beef, Sauce Figaro
• Médaillons of Pig’s Knuckle in Wine Jelly
• English Pâté on Ham, Cumberland Sauce
• Loin of Veal - Asparagus Salad
• Bresse Poularde
• Suprême of Quails in Orange Baskets
• Smoked Westphalian Ham
• Boiled Coburg Ham
• Choice of Fresh Sausage

Soups

• Thickened Semolina Soup with Cauliflower
• Holsatian Potato Soup 
• Philadelphia Pepper Pot
• Chicken Broth Ménagère
• Consommé in Cup, hot or cold

Eggs

• Shirred Eggs Opéra
• Scrambled Eggs Scotch Style
• Poached Eggs New Jersey

Fish

• Boiled Haddock, Browned Butter or English Egg Sauce
• Rougets en Papillote
• Lobster Thermidor

Entrées

• Loin of Pork in Cider - Candied sweet Potatoes
• Fillet of Lamb Baron Brisse
• Médaillons of Calfs Head with New Tomato Stew
• Mousselines of Chicken à la Patti

From the Grill (about 10 Minutes)

• Sirloin Steak
• Schaschliks Caucasienne
• Chicken Liver with Bacon en Brochette

Salads

• Endive, Wax Bean, Cucumber, Miami

Dressings

• Thousand Islands. Roquefort, Cream, German

New Vegetables

• Cauliflower Milanaise   
• Strained Spinach
• Lettuce au Jus  
• Buttered Com on the Cob
• Italian Squash   
• Creamed Kohlrabi
• String Beans Tourangelle       
• Parsnips Orly

Vegetables and Pastes

• Flageolet Beans
• Spaghetti Génoise
• Steamed Rice

Potatoes

• Baked Idaho, Candied sweet, Boiled, French fried, Buttered, Berny, Macaire, Noisette, Allumettes

Sweets and Compote

• Cold Danish Pudding, Vanilla Sauce
• Rice Colbert
• Mille-Feuilles Cake
• Preserved Mirabelles
• Compote of Fresh Fruit

Ice-Cream

• Banana Dorothy
• Vanilla Ice-Cream, Wafers
• Lemon Ice-Cream, Friandises

Cheese

• Fontainebleau, Bel Paese, Gournay, Primula, Port Salut, Swiss, Gorgonzola, German Cream with Chive

• Fruit in Season

Coffee and Tea

• Demi Tasse,  Sanka Demi Tasse, Tea

 

 

Special Dishes Today :

• Brunswick Asparagus
• Smoked Westphalian Ham
• Bremen Chicken Ragout with Butter Rice
• Corned Brisket Beef with Horse Radish Sauce

If desired, special Dishes for Diet may be ordered.