A Capital Breakfast

A Capital Breakfast

This brief blog post is keeping with the historical theme. The description of a breakfast was from 1840 and was found in a periodical called the The American Masonic Register. Here is the description:

"I have a capital breakfast ready for you—tea, coffee, hot rolls, broiled ham, eggs. and what I know you dote on—a red herring, stuffed with bird's eye peppers."

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