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Historic Dinner at Montgomery's Inn
Congratulations to the Montgomery Inn for providing
this post-symposium excursion that offered an authentic Ontario
culinary tourism experience.
 Montgomery's Inn, an 1830
country inn and tavern, now a City of Toronto museum, invites you to a historic
dinner to mark the occasion of Ontario's first Culinary-Tourism
Symposium. This was a unique opportunity to step into the province
's culinary past.
Before the meal, guests visited the Inn's Historic Kitchen
for an open-hearth
cooking demonstration (no running water, no electricity - just the
light and heat of a wood-fuelled fire!), sampled traditional beers in the
Historic
Tavern, and tour Margaret and Thomas Montgomery's Inn. Then, everyone gathered
in the Tavern, for a selection of 19th-century drinks, such as Shrub and
homemade Ginger Beer, served from the bar. The evening culminated with a
three-course
dinner and Ontario wines. The menu was created from recipes selected from
19th-century Ontario cookbooks and manuscripts:
Curry Soup
(Mrs Nourse, Modern Practical Cookery, Montreal,
Kingston, and Hamilton: 1845, pp 32, 196)
Tea Biscuits
(Stennett ms, Toronto Reference Library)
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Medley Pie
with lamb, apple, and onion filling,
topped with No. 10 - an excellent short crust - not sweet, but rich
(The Canadian Housewife's Manual of Cookery, Hamilton: 1861, pp 201-2,
234)
Potato Balls
(The Canadian Housewife's Manual of Cookery, p 186)
Cabbage salad with Salad Dressing for Cabbage,
and Pickled Beets
(The Home Cook Book, Toronto: 1877)
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Bread and Butter Pudding
(The Cook Not Mad, Kingston: 1831, Nos. 61, 96),
with Sauce for Aunt Martha's Pudding
(Fiskin ms, Toronto Reference Library)
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Tea, Coffee
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Visit Montgomery
Inn web site for more information
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