This one might be cheating, because the school serves it as Thanksgiving dinner. But they serve it to no more than 25 people, so I think it still counts. This is from One Year at Our Boarding-School, from the mid-1870s:
"Soups, roast and boiled turkey, oyster sauce, roast beef, chickens, scalloped oysters, tomatoes, beets, turnips, potatoes, apple fritters, currant jelly, cranberries, celery and pickles. For dessert: Meringue pudding, mince-pie, apple-pie, cream-pie, cherry-pie, lemon-pie, cranberry-pie, pumpkin-pie, custard-pie, dried-apple-pie, plum-pie....Then came ice-cream, cake and candy...a cup of coffee, nuts and raisins finished the dinner."
I love that they serve apple fritters as part of dinner! And then serve apple pie afterward. Just staggering. This makes the Sucrerie de la Montagne's menu slightly less impressive, though it was, perhaps, close.
OK, off to my lunch - a PBJ and a plum - which seems sad and meager now, though I'm sure it will be yummy.
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