Today’s Empress of England menus are all dated Friday, September 8, 1961. We’ve seen the breakfast and lunch menu covers before but the dinner is new.

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A close comparison of the breakfast menu with the one presented yesterday shows that the first third and last third of the two menus were identical. Only the middle third — fish, eggs, To Order, Cold, and the kind of pancakes served — was different. Instead of Scotch pancakes, this menu offered buckwheat pancakes.

Buckwheat pancakes are made from buckwheat flower, but what are Scotch pancakes? Some on-line recipes describe ordinary griddle cakes but with a little cinnamon. But a commentor on one recipe says, “What we in Scotland call a pancake, sassenachs and other non-Celts call a drop scone. That which the Southern British call a pancake, we Scots call a crumpet.” Drop scones are apparently thicker than ordinary pancakes. One recipe makes them especially thick using a crumpet ring or cookie cutter.

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Like yesterday’s lunch menu, today’s features the S.S. Savannah on the cover. Inside, close to 100 different items are listed. While some, particularly the juices and cheeses, are the same on both days, most are at least a little different.

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Today’s dinner menu cover features Louis de Baude, Comte de Frontenac (1622-1698), standing before Pau, France, which was about four miles from where he was born. Photos of Pau today show that not much has changed since this cover was painted, suggesting that the city on the cover was at it looked in the 1950s, not when Frontenac lived in the area.

Frontenac was an early governor of New France (which we now call Quebec) who successfully defended the colony from the English. Canadian Pacific’s Chateau Frontenac is named for him, along with many other places in Quebec.