Suggestions

• Tomatoes marinated in oil
• Cold Meats
• Caviar
• Oysters
• Anchovies
• Cold and Smoked Fish
• Stuffed Eggs
• Cheese
• Pickled Mushrooms
• Cold Tongue
• Herring
• Cold Sliced Chicken
• Shrimp
• Olives
• Pickled Onions
• Marinated Vegetables

In the dinner menu, appetizers are followed by soup, meat, oftentimes fish, potatoes, vegetables, both cooked and green, dessert and tea or coffee. At state and formal dinners, wines are served with each course.

Many Poles traditionally from generation to generation maintained private wine cellars. Correct serving of liquors was strictly observed in table etiquette. Cocktails were unknown. With canapes were served various whiskeys. The weaker kinds were for the ladies.