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Potage à l’Ecossaise

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Saumon Grillé sauce Ravigote

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Chaudfroid d’Agneau Printanier

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Poulets rôtis et Langue

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Petits Pois à l’Anglaise

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Plum Pudding au Sabayon

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Eton Mess aux Fraises

A more restrained menu for a dinner given by the now Dowager Queen of Great Britain, Alexandra, for family members who had come from abroad to attend Edward VII’s funeral two days earlier.

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The fantastic feeding habits in the royal palace, castles and country houses during Victorian and Edwardian days moderated following Edward VII’s death. His successors – his son George V and grandson George VI – were not great gourmets, although they were firm in their opinions about food. King George V, for instance, who had spent time in India, loved Bombay duck and was very happy to eat curry, prepared by Indian staff, every day, while Queen Mary was known as a connoisseur of fine food, but one without gluttony. In any case, times changed, and their reigns were marked by war and the deprivations it brings.