Pennsylvania Railroad

Dining Car Department Cooking Instructions

For the preparation of dishes served in Dining Cars throughout the System

Edited & restored by BHI Publications

This book has heavy duty, laminated cardstock covers and is 8 1/2" wide and 11" tall.

Sample pages are below.

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This is an extremely unique book containing the recipes used by the

Dining Car Department of one of the top 5 railroads in the history

of the United States. It also contains serving instructions going as far

as to detail of what to do in different weather conditions and seasons

for some items. Then it tells the cooks and dining car attendants exactly

what type of china and any special utensil that may be necessary for the item.

While there are many dishes that are not as common today as

they once were, there are many that are still staples today.

Overall this gives us not only a glimpse into how everyone from

normal travelers to the upper levels of society enjoyed their food.

The Pennsylvania naturally was on the cutting edge of culinary dishes

due to the tastes and expectations of riders traveling between

New York, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., and the rest of the system.

Many of those passengers were likely world travelers in

an era when only the wealthy were able to afford to do so

and the rest of the passengers were able to enjoy those benefits.

These recipes and instructions cover everything served in the

dining cars from soups to desserts, beverages to jams to salad dressings.

The first 3 of the sample pages are the index showing all the categories of

recipes and the first page of serving instructions. Toward the end  of the samples

is one of the pages covering definitions of the many French terms used in cooking.

This book has 110 pages. Most pages have at least 3 recipes per page.

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