Inventory
1953 North Cape Cruise
08 July Breakfast Menu
This is another page of a series of Caronia meal menu transcripts. It is for breakfast of 08 July
on the North Cape Cruise. On many ships, the breakfast menu was more or less standard from day
to day. Not so on the Caronia!
1953 Cruise
Breakfast
This 1953 menu shows quite an extensive array to choose from, and each day there would be a new
menu printed, with range of different items added. If you woke up with a grand appetite, the
selection offered ensured that you could set yourself up for the day…
Find out why Onion Soup Gratinée
was a “speciality” on every 1st Class and Cruise Breakfast Menu
RMS Caronia
Wednesday, July 8, 1953
North Cape Cruise
Breakfast
Juices: Iced Orange • Prune • Vegetable
Fresh Raspberries with Cream
Oranges • Grape Fruit • Bananas • Apples • Grapes
Fresh Sliced Pineapple • Chilled Honeydew Melon
Compote of Prunes • Baked Apples • Green Figs in Syrup
Quaker Oats • Wheatena • Oatmeal Porridge
Corn Flakes • Puffed Rice • Bran Flakes • All Bran
Post Toasties • Rice Flakes • Shredded Wheat • Grape Nuts
Speciality: Onion Soup, Gratinée
Grilled Fresh Haddock, Carlton • Kippered Herrings
Fried Fillet of Boston Sole
Eggs: Fried • Shirred • Scrambled • Poached • Boiled
Omelettes: Plain • Mushroom • Tomato • Parsley • Ham
Minced Creamed Lamb, Créole
Grills: York Ham Slice • American and Danish Bacon
Devilled Chicken Legs
Potatoes: Lyonnaise • Mashed
COLD BUFFET:
Roast Ribs of Beef • American Ham • Roast Duckling
Galantine of Chicken • Bradenham Ham • Shoulder of Lamb
Sliced Tomatoes • Radishes • Spring Onions
Buckwheat Cakes • Griddle Cakes
Syrups : Maple • Golden
Waffles: Plain • Chocolate
Breads: Sultana • Rye • Hovis • Brioche • Vienna
Danish Pastries • Croissants • Corn Muffins
Carmalt • White and Graham Rolls • English Muffins
Preserves, Various • Honey • Marmalade
Teas: Ceylon • China • Blended • Green
Coffee • Sanka Coffee • Nescafe • Ovaltine • Cocoa
Horlick's Malted Milk • Cup Chocolate • Instant Postum
Kaffee H.A.G. • Chase and Sanborn's Instant Coffee
