The Bourgeois Of Boulogne Have Commonly Soup And Bouilli At Noon,
And A Roast, With A Sallad, For Supper; And At All Their Meals
There Is A Dessert Of Fruit.
This indeed is the practice all over
France.
On meagre days they eat fish, omelettes, fried beans,
fricassees of eggs and onions, and burnt cream. The tea which
they drink in the afternoon is rather boiled than infused; it is
sweetened all together with coarse sugar, and drank with an equal
quantity of boiled milk.
We had the honour to be entertained the other day by our
landlord, Mr. B - , who spared no cost on this banquet, exhibited
for the glory of France. He had invited a newmarried couple,
together with the husband's mother and the lady's father, who was
one of the noblesse of Montreuil, his name Mons. L - y. There were
likewise some merchants of the town, and Mons. B - 's uncle, a
facetious little man, who had served in the English navy, and was
as big and as round as a hogshead; we were likewise favoured with
the company of father K - , a native of Ireland, who is vicaire or
curate of the parish; and among the guests was Mons. L - y's son,
a pretty boy, about thirteen or fourteen years of age. The repas
served up in three services, or courses, with entrees and hors
d'oeuvres, exclusive of the fruit, consisted of about twenty
dishes, extremely well dressed by the rotisseur, who is the best
cook I ever knew, in France, or elsewhere; but the plates were not
presented with much order.
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