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of lamb with poivrade sauce, and pluvier on toast in Italian 
sauce. 
The relishes were raw tomatoes, Spanish olives, pickled 
oysters (a favorite dish then), currant jelly, and celery. If the 
guest desired still more meat, there were under “game” such 
trifles as partridges with bread sauce, and broiled English 
snipe. The vegetables were relatively scarce (as in the diet 
of Louis the Fourteenth). They were boiled and mashed po- 
tatoes, stewed tomatoes, sweet potatoes, and lima beans. 
Pastry was well represented by pies of apple, plum, peach, 
pineapple, custard, and pumpkin. Also plum pudding and 
cabinet pudding, fancy blanc mange, Spanish cream, pine- 
apple salad, Swiss méringues, fancy ornamented charlotte 
russe, gateaux in Neapolitan style, and jellies of maraschino, 
of Madeira, of punch, of champagne, and of fancy fruits. 
Under “confectionery” were listed: canilla méringues 4 la 
créme, rose almonds, fancy lady’s cake [sic], quince soufflée, 
vanilla sugar almonds, ornamented macaroons, mint cream 
candy, butterflies of Vienna cake, Savoy biscuit, variety glacé 
fruit, dominos of biscuit, fancy variety candy, roast almonds, 
conserve kisses, chocolate biscuit, fancy diamond kisses, pre- 
served almond kisses, and vanilla ice cream [only one flavor]. 
If the guest was still hungry, there were “desserts” as fol- 
lows: almonds, peaches, pecan nuts, Grenoble nuts, hot-house 
grapes, citron melons, Bartlett pears, raisins, filberts, and 
coffee. The other drinks were not listed, but many toasts were 
drunk, including one to Cyrus W. Field: “To his exertions, 
energy, courage, and perseverance are we indebted for the 
ocean telegraph; we claim, but Immortality owns him.” Lord 
Napier, the English minister, expressed the appreciation of 
the British Empire in cordial words. 
The bill of fare also listed the ornaments of the tables, de- 
signed especially for the occasion. They were as follows: 
Queen Victoria of Great Britain (represented as a young 
woman, as she was then under forty); President James Bu- 
