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Old Jan 14, 2010 | 11:10 pm
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Waihi49
 
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Auckland, New Zealand
Posts: 68
Great to see another menu Seat 2A! Do you have any more tucked away that you could share?

I've come across an Air India First Class Menu that is undated but I think is from the late 1970s. Sadly, the route is not specified either, but here it is:

Air India "Maharajah" Service:

Hors d"Oeuvres

Marinated Artichokes
Bagration Barquettes
Cornets of Smoked Ham with Caviar
Anchovies with Hard Boiled Eggs

Soups

Choice of Game Consommé or Cream of Celery

Entrées

Veal Sauté with Mushrooms
Lobster Newburg

Accompaniments

Noisette Potatoes
Peas a la Française
Vegetable Pillau
Buttered Carrots with Herbs

Salad

Green Garden Salad

Desserts

Liqueur-falvoured Soufflé
Assorted Cheese
Fresh Fruit Basket
Chocolates
Indian Sweetmeats
Coffee and Tea


In September I was given a First Class Menu for Pope John Paul II's flight from Perth to Rome in 1986, which made a refuelling stop at the Seychelles. The flight was operated by Qantas on a 747SP. Here's the menu:

Perth-Seychelles

Breakfast:

Fresh Apple, Orange and Tomato Juice
Champagne and Orange

Fresh Fruit Cocktail

Yoghurt
Selection of Cereals

Scrambled Eggs or Boiled Eggs
Snapper Meunière
Grilled Bacon ++ Broiled Tomatoes

Croissant ++ Danish Pastry ++ Toast
Marmalade ++ Strawberry Jam ++ Honey

Earl Grey or English Breakfast Tea
Coffee

Lunch

Cocktails & Hot Savouries

Smoked Salmon
Avocado with Seafood
Caviar Egg

Green Salad
Vinaigrette or Thousand Island Dressing

Rost Loin of Veal Normande
or
Chicken with Wild Rice and Cognac
or
Crayfish Salad

Fresh Vegetables

French Vanilla Ice Cream with
Hot Chocolate or Raspberry Sauce

Cheese Board
Fruit Basket
Coffee and Handmade Chocolates

Seychelles-Rome

Dinner


Cocktails and Hot Savouries

Lobster & Grapefruit Cocktail
or
Duck Liver Parfait

Rack of Lamb Fines Herbes with Jus Lie and
Redcurrant Jelly
or
Fillet of Barramundi with Macadamia Nuts
or
Cold Beef Wellington

Fresh Vegetables

Sour Cherries Amaretto
or
Apple Pancakes with Fresh Cream

Cheese Board
Fruit Basket
Coffee and Pralines

Supper

Caspian Caviar

Double Consommé with Cheese Straws

Seafood or Chicken Vol au Vant

Orange Grand Marnier

Tea and Coffee

Enjoy! I look forward to more posts on this amazing thread!
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