Liederkranz Club Dinner and menu
One hundred years ago today … The Liederkranz Club, founded to promote German-US relations, held a dinner honoring Emanuel Baruch. Thanks to the New York Public Library menu collection, we know exactly what attendees consumed, and also what Baruch looked like.
Courtesy NYPL’s What’s on the Menu?
Courtesy NYPL’s What’s on the Menu?
Not much to parse here, though note: a “consomme double” is a consomme (broth-based soup with multiple ingredients) thickened doubly with gelatin from bones.
Over 1,000 attendees crowded into the Liederkranz Club at 119 East 58 Street to acknowledge Baruch’s philanthropic work helping war orphans.
New York Tribune, 22 November 1920, p. 11. Chronicling America.
WRITTEN BY JONATHAN GOLDMAN, NOVEMBER 21, 2020
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