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Dinner
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*Items indicated can be prepared Gluten Free
Good Corner Dishes
*Green Pease Soup without Meat $10
When your pease are boil’d enough, put thyme and sweet marjoram, a little mint…and green onion shred fine…add some white toasts neatly cut and the young pease.
Dictionarium Domesticum, Nathan Bailey, 1736
*Lettuces from the Garden13
Dressed with ver jus and the finest Italian oil
Inspired by Thomas Jefferson’s acclaimed 250 varieties of greens at Monticello
*Oysters
From the waters of the Chesapeake region Mrs. Campbell’s oysters are grown in the pristine waters of Virginia. These exclusive locations continue to grace the table and were famously enjoyed by George Washington
*On the half shell $19
mushroom catsup & allegar mignonette/nasturtium
Campbell’s Tavern Original, 2022
*Farced Oisters $19
Having open’d your oisters, add to them greens minc’d small and boiled in cream and smoked streak...place some on each and strew with buttered crumb
Inspired by, The Court and Country Cook, Massialot, 1702
Made Dishes
Mrs. Campbell kindly recommends that you may add the following to any entrée
Soup or Salad and Dessert 17 / Buttered Crab or Shrimp 22
*Mrs. Campbells Fried Chicken $35
Marinate your chicken after it is clean of feathers…dip’t in flour strewn with salt pepper…fried quickly Serv’d up with good ham
A Colonial Williamsburg Favorite
Crab Cakes $49
When boil’d clean the best flakes from the crab, add to it egg, onions shred fine, bread crumbs & season it well
A Campbell’s Tavern Original
*To Fry Fish $38
The great art of frying fish is to have it free from grease… the fish should be dipped in egg, then in bread crumbs
Recipes from the Personal cookbook of Thomas Jefferson, beginning in 1788
*A Seafood Pye $54
make a good crust…boil your fish, add to it scallops, shrimp and lobster in the same manner, send to table with gravy.
Campbells original, inspired by The Universal Cook; Or Lady’s Complete Assistant, John Townshend, 1773
*To Broil Beef Steaks $58
The best steaks are cut from the middle…let the fire be very clear and quick…season them with pepper and salt, when they are enough lay them in the dish and rub a bit of butter over them.
The Lady’s Assistant, Charlotte Mason, 1777
*Potato Dumplings in the Italian Manner $30
put potatoes to boil & strew with pepper and salt…roll in fine flour and cut into dumplings… send to table with pretty vegetables from the garden
A Campbell’s Tavern Original
