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Thanks to its popularity on the Cabin Liner Instagram, it has become a tradition in my household to cook an ocean liner inspired Christmas lunch. This year's lunch was a treat to prepare. Here is the full menu for those who are not on Instagram, with details of the ships which inspired the recipes: 🔸 Soup: Pommes de Purée Parmentier, served with Manzanilla sherry (R.M.S. Majestic, À La Carte Restaurant, 1926) 🔸 Fish: Paupiettes de Sole Bordelaise, served with Riesling (M.V. Britannic, Cabin Class, 1931) 🔸 Punch: Clementine, Cherry, and Brandy, served with crémant/champagne (Modern but inspired by Edwardian flavours) 🔸 Main: Roast "ducking" with potatoes and green vegetables, served with Bordeaux or more champagne (R.M.S. Majestic, Tourist Class, 1929) 🔸 Dessert: Poires à l'Impératrice, Savarin Montmorency, served with port and coffee (R.M.S. Olympic, À La Carte Restaurant, 1922) Sometimes a collector finds interesting links across time. This is a piece of sheet music which was published by the prominent New York based music producers Leo Feist in 1913. The song “He’s on a boat that sailed last Wednesday” appears to have specifically commissioned by the Cunard Steamship Company to promote R.M.S. Mauretania. By the beginning of the First World War, Leo Feist were one of the seven largest music firms in the world and part of New York’s famous “Tin Pan Alley” collection of music producers and songwriters who dominated the popular music scene from the 1880s until the late 1930s.  |
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