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POULTERS’ COMPANY SHROVE TUESDAY PANCAKE RACE
February 2005 – Guildhall Yard
The Cook & The Butler supported the Worshipful Company of
Poulters Shrove Tuesday Pancake Race in the Corporation of London
Guildhall Yard by cooking the special race day pancakes.
Click here
to view pictures of the event courtesy of ukstudentlife.com |
Broad Street
Ward Club
Luncheon for the Rt. Hon. Lord Mayor
The Crypt, Guildhall, London
Friday 25th November 2005 |
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Menu
Wild Forrest Mushroom
Salad in a Filo Basket
Radichio & Rocket with Quails Egg, Garlic &
Chives
Pinot Blanc
2002 Trimbach Alsace
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CIVET OF WILD
BOAR
with Celeriac Dauphinoise
Roasted Baby Winter Vegetables
Glazed Apple
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Pineapple WITH EXOTIC
FRUITS
Passion Fruit
Coulis
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Rich Roast
Coffee
Chocolate Truffles
Bairo de Vilar Ruby Port
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The Worshipful Company of Hackney Carriage Drivers
2nd Annual Liverymen's Dinner
Saddlers' Hall
24th November 2005
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Bishopsgate Ward Club
The Annual Banquet
Trinity House
21st November 2005
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The Coleman Street Ward Club
Entertain The Right Honourable Lord Mayor & Lady Mayoress
To a Civic Luncheon at The Guildhall
Thursday 17th November 2005
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Menu
Terrine of Oak
Smoked Scottish Salmon
with a Fresh Salmon Mousse
Sun Dried Tomato & Fennel
Selection of
Warm Rolls
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Roast Fillet of
English Beef
Bordelaise Sauce
Chateau Potatoes
Roasted Vine Tomatoes
Trio of Peas
Baby Carrots
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Sweet Lord
Mayor
Baby Pineapple
Filled with Exotic Tropical Mousse
Passion Fruit Coulis
Merchant Taylor Biscuit
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Rich Roast
Coffee
& Chocolate Truffle
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One of the
highlights of the excellent luncheon was the creation by the Ward Club
Chairman, Mrs. Lin Luder, of a special dessert to celebrate the Lords
Mayor's election. The dessert reflected the Lord Mayor's livery
company, the Merchant Taylors' emblem, a pastry camel.
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The City of London's
Latest Historic Venue
The
Worshipful Company of Paviors hosted a Luncheon at the historic Temple Bar
on Thursday 27 October 2005.
Temple Bar
for over 800 years marked the boundary to The City of London at the Law
Courts, the last gateway of Portland stone was designed by Christopher
Wren completed in 1672 and removed in January 1878 to be rebuilt in 1889
at Theobalds Park
The Temple
Bar Trust was established in 1976 with a plan to rebuild the Temple bar
within the City, the Trust achieved their plan when the Lord Mayor Robert
Finch reopened the Temple Bar on l0th November 2004.
The Temple
Bar has now stone by stone been placed dramatically next to Saint Paul’s
Cathedral Chapter House as a gate way in the new dramatic and distinctive
Paternoster square.
Adding a
fantastic new venue to the City of London's first class existing portfolio
of historic buildings, ideal for meetings, luncheons and candle light
dinners.
The guest,
entertained by the Master, Wardens and Clerk of the Paviors Company
included Alderman Sir Robert Finch, Sir Christopher Collett, the architect
Henry Friedland and Colonel Cohn Ansell of the Temple Bar Trust, enjoyed a
luncheon in the magnificent historic splendour to celebrate the successful
return of the only surviving City Gateway.
The dedication stone was
made and
donated by the Company of Paviors.
www.paviors.org.uk
www.stpauls.co.uk (Temple Bar Venue Hire)
www.cityoflondon.gov.uk... ...temple_bar (History & General Information) |
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London Fashion Week 2005 - SPARKS charity fashion
show
Porchester Hall, London
6th October 2005
www.sparks.org.uk |
The SPARKS children’s
charity chose The Cook & The Butler to support the 2005 annual fund
raising fashion show at the
Porchester Hall, Bayswater.
Martin Collins and
Angelica Bell compeered an interesting and fabulous display of stunning
fashion collections from many of the world’s top designers, shown to an
audience of over 300 guests who attend the annual fundraising of this very
special children’s charity.
This year the menu
designed by The Cook & The Butler's head chef Jean Duillon to support the
theme of The Orient was served in bowls to combine a wide selection of
tastes and flavours, and fit with the time scale, giving each guest a full
choice.
Menu
Bowl
Food served on white plate with Banana Leaf
Lightly Curried Tropical Red Snapper Fillet
Sweet & Sour Oriental Duck
Strips of Breast of Chicken with Fresh Coconut, Lemon Grass Sauce& Stir
Fried Vegetables
Saffron Basmati Rice
Vegetarian Bowl Food served on white plate with Banana Leaf
Sweet & Sour Stir Fried Vegetables with Egg Noodles
Roasted Oriental Vegetables Korma
Wild Mushroom Stroganoff
Saffron Basmati Rice
Trio of
Red Desserts on glass square plate
Brandy Snap Basket with Raspberry Parfait
Warm Cherrie Marinade in Kirsch Coated in White Chocolate Sauce
Baby Pineapple Filled with Minted Red Currant & Strawberries
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A highlight of the event was a
walk-through by The Cook & The Butler's service staff.
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The Worshipful Company of Carmen
www.thecarmen.co.uk
Cart
Marking Ceremony 13th July 2005
Although carts are
no longer used for transport in the City, the traditional Cart Marking
ceremony still takes place each year in Guildhall Yard.
The Cook & The Butler providing the luncheon following
the ceremony.
Pictures of the event can be found here.
Photographs by Jo Jo & Co www.jojoandco.com
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Royal
Commission for the Exhibition of 1851
Presidential Dinner
HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
Armourers' Hall
17th March 2005
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Menu
Caramelised Apple & Goat’s Cheese
Toasted Bruschette
Dressed Fresh Leaves
Fillet of English Lamb
Marinated in Rosemary & Garlic
Tarragon Sauce, Glazed Shallots
Lyonnaise Potatoes, Cauliflower Gratin & Green Beans
Nougatine Terrine
Pistachio Crème Anglaise
Bread Baskets of Scrambled Duck Eggs
Garlic & Blue Cheese Straws
Rich Roast Coffee
Chocolate Truffles
Wines
Chablis, Moreau, 2003
Pauillac, Baron Philippe, 1998
Bairo de Vilar Late Bottled Vintage, 1994
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Kingston Smith Annual Partners' Dinner
www.kingstonsmith.co.uk
Stationers' Hall
13th May 2005
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In 1403 the Mayor and Aldermen of the
City of
London
approved the formation of a fraternity or Guild of stationers
(booksellers who copied and sold manuscript books and writing
materials and limners who decorated and illustrated them). Each
appointed a warden to control them and regulate their trade.
By the early sixteenth century printers joined The Stationers’
Company and by the mid century the printers bad more or less ousted
the manuscript trade. In
1557 the Guild received a royal charter of incorporation and in
1559, the right to wear a distinctive livery. They became a livery
company, numbered 47 in precedence.
The Stationers’ charter secured them from outside competition, but
they had to settle their own internal disputes, which mostly
concerned infringements of ownership of ‘copies’ or what we
would now call copyright.
The present Hall replaces one which was burnt down in the Great Fire
of 1666. The interior presents much the same appearance today as
when it was built although the frontage was radically altered in
1800 to give it an early nineteenth century façade. The Court Room
was added in 1748, and the east wing, formerly the Beadle’s and
Treasurer’s house, was partly rebuilt and completely refurbished
in 1885 to provide the so-called Stock Room, where the board of the
English Stock met.
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Tribute
to Tim Sloane
Sung
by The Fortunairs (01293882730)
singbarbershop.com
at the Ladies Court Dinner
Armourers Hall 11th May 2005
Well,
Tim Sloane OBE he’s
Ne-ver know to moan
He’s al-ways so up beat with
That beam-ing smile, though
Us-ing his e-mail took
Him quite a while! He’s
Quite
a man underwater and is
Fond of his dram, He’s a
Grandfather too, but as
Chief Clerk he’s through
Well Tim Sloane--- Now
You’ll be a smoke free zone! |
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The Worshipful Company of Gunmakers
Court Dinner
Armourers' Hall
21st April 2005
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MENU
Seafood Sauerkraut
Monkfish, Salmon, Tiger Prawns, Sole & White Cabbage
Warm Onion Bread
Grilled Rosette of English Lamb
Redcurrant Sauce
Celariac Daupninois
Trio of Peas
Garden Mange Tout, Suger Snap
Baby Carrots
Pear & Dark Chocolate Tian
Pear William à l’anglaise
Bread Baskets of
Scrambled Guinea Fowl Eggs
with Garlic & Blue Cheese Straws
Rich Roast Coffee
& Chocolate Truffles
Jules Feraud
Champagne
Hawkesbridge Sauvignon 2002
Château Langoa-Barton 1990
Château Bastor Lamontagne 2001
Quinta do Noval 1982
Clynelish Single Malt Cask Strength
The
Gunmakers’ Company
Although
not among the most ancient of the City Guilds, it is still a very old
Livery Company reaching back over hundreds of years with a history of
service and endeavour, and is remarkable as being one of the very few
which still carry out the work for which it was founded. Most of the craft
guilds were founded by the reign of Edward II, who ordered that all
citizens of London
were to be members of some trade or mystery. Consequently by the fifteenth
century each body of craftsmen controlled the trade in which it had a
vested interest.
But in 1637, when the Gunmakers applied for a Charter, an era was coming
to a close. In France Louis X rule was nearly over, in Germany
the Thirty Years’ War was drifting to its miserable end, and in England, in the thirteenth year of the reign of Charles I, Hampden was standing
his trial on the question of Ship Money.
Gunmaking by this time was a well-established trade in the City of London
and the manufacture of hand guns and small arms was making big strides,
but it had no Company to watch its interests, or more important still, to
protect those who brought firearms. The gunmakers were enrolled in several
Companies, principally the Armourers and Blacksmiths.
The preamble of the Charter (the Charter itself is still to be seen in its
leather case in the Company’s archives) skilfully sets out the arguments
for the new Company.
It points out, in the language of the day, “how for many years the
Gunmakers of the City of London had practised and upheld the manufacture
of making all sorts of hand-guns for Horse and Foot for the King’s
Special Service and supply of Stores as well as for the occasions of Sport
in the exercise and musters both for horse and foot and had obtained a
more exquisite skill in that Mistery than in former times and now divers
Blacksmiths and others inexpert in the Art had taken it upon themselves to
make, try and prove guns after their unskilful way, damnifying the
Gunmakers in their particular trade and causing much harm and danger
through much unskilfulness to the King’s loyal subjects. It considers
the necessity of what sort of Arm both for defence and offence and wishes
to redeem it in the hands of skilful Artists and to train up others for
the supply of the King and his subjects.”
The Charter was granted on 14th
March 1637
under the name of the Master Wardens and Society of the Mistery of
Gunmakers of the City of
London.
The Gunmakers’ Mark, the letters “G.P.”, crowned, was approved and
is still in use.
Armourers’
Hall
Armourers’
Hall, situated on the corner of Coleman Street
and London Wall, is the original site of the “Dragon and two Shoppes”.
The company has occupied this same site since 1346, taking a lease on the
property in 1428 and acquiring the freehold in the 16th century.
The Hall was one of the very few to escape destruction in the Great Fire
of 1666, which was checked a few yards short of it. Members of the Company
who had their workshops in the surrounding districts were rendered
homeless, but permitted to carry on their trade in the Hall for three
months provided that no hammer or forge was used.
In 1795, the Hall was enlarged, but the Court decided in 1839 to rebuild
it completely which, together with its furnishings, cost £10,533. The
lantern or dome of the Livery Hall was added in 1872.
On
the 29th December 1940, during a major blitz on London, the surrounding area was devastated, but again the Hall survived. The
Company is much indebted to an unknown fireman who, seeing the curtains of
the Court Room ablaze, broke into the Hall and extinguished the flames.
Although his identity may never be known, his quick thinking saved the
Hall. |
The Faculty of Building, London Branch
www.faculty-of-building.co.uk
Armourers' Hall
14th April 2005
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Menu
Grilled Fillet of Parrot Fish
Stir Fried Vegetables
in Sweet Chilli Sauce
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Selection of Breads
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Fillet of Scottish Beef
Wild Mushroom Sauce
Pommes Anna
Pak Choi
Glazed Shallots
Garlic Green Beans
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Pear & Chocolate Parfait
Poire William Anglaise
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Rich Roast Coffee & Chocolate Truffles
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Wine Selection
Patriarche Pere et Fils Blanc
Chateau Raveaux Premieres Cotes de Blaye 1997
Bairo De Vilar Fine Ruby or
Cognac
Sparkling & still Mineral Water Served with Dinner
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~~Menu~~
Lobster & Crayfish Risotto
with Toasted Brioche
Chateau Haut — Mirambet
Bordeaux
Blanc 1998
Medallion of Veal
Sage Jus, Dauphinoise Potatoes
Glazed Shallotte
Green beans & Baby carrots
Barriere Freres 2000
Bordeaux
Rouge
Nougattine Terrine
Pistachio Cream Anglaise
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Bairo De Vilar
Ruby
Port
Rich Roast Coffee &
Chocolate Truffles
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MENU
Sautéed Breast of Chicken
With
Forest
Mushrooms & Leeks
Chardonnay Sauce
or
Traditional Billingsgate Fish Pie
Selection of Vegetables & Potato
Bowls of Salad
Red Chard & Beetroot Salad
New Potatoes & Chive Salad
Waldorf Salad
Dessert Table
Lemon & Lime Cheese Cake
Soft
Berry
Compote
Selection of British & Irish Cheese
&
Rich Roast Coffee
& Truffles
Wines
Patriarche Pere et Fils Blanc
Patriarche Pere et Fils Rouge
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Menu
Warm Salad of Marinated Escallops
with Five Spices &Basil
Warm Selection of Breads
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Roast Duck Breast
Orange & Thyme Jus
Pommes Anna
Roasted Root Vegetables
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Apple Parfait
Calvados Custard Sauce
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Grilled Goats Cheese
& Red Onion
Corn Salad & Balsamic Dressing
Coffee: Yauco Selecto
from the
Island
of
Puerto Rico
& Truffles
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MENU
FILLET OF ENGLISH LAMB
Marinated in Rosemary & Garlic
Tarragon Sauce
CELERIAC DAUPHINOISE POTATOES
CAULIFLOWERS GRATIN
ROASTED ROOT VEGETABLES
Or
Pre ordered Vegetarian Option
DESSERT
ICED PINEAPPLE MOUSSE
Served in Baby Pineapple
with a Warm Chocolate & Coconut Sauce
Rich Roast Coffee
& Chocolate Truffles
Sponsored by:
Matheson
Ormsby Prentice
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Langbourn Ward
Club
Annual Banquet
Salters' Hall
9th March 2005
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MENU
Fillet of
Sea Bass
Spring Onion Mash
Saffron Sauce
Selection of Breads
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Fillet of
Aberdeen
Angus Beef
Foie Gras & Truffle
Madeira & Black Trumpet Mushroom Sauce
Thyme Infused Fondant Potatoes
Glazed Turned Vegetables
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Iced Pineapple Mousse
Served in Baby Pineapple
With a Warm Chocolate & Coconut Sauce
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Tartlet of Farmhouse Goats Cheese
Red Onion Marmalade
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Rich Roast Coffee
& Chocolate Truffles
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City
& Guilds College Association
92nd Annual Dinner
3rd March 2005
Saddlers' Hall |
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The Association’s
Wines
It is not
generally known that wine has been grown in England since Roman times, and
by tradition we are serving with the first course tonight an English wine.
Old Luxters, tonight’s white wine, has won numerous prestigious national
and international awards since it was first produced in 1984. The wine is
made from three grapes grown on the soils of the Chiltern Valley, these
are the Becchus, Reichensteiner and Madeleine Angevine. It is interesting
to note that the last grape originates from Loire Valley where it is grown
as a dessert eating grape, however it makes delicious wine in this
country.
The Château
Langoa Barton 1986 claret accompanying the main course has been selected
from the Association’s own stocks, which we have maintained for more
than fifty years. Reckoned to be one of the finest clarets, it comes from
the St. Julian area in the heart of the Haut Médoc district close to the
Gironde river. Hopefully, diners will enjoy this splendid wine, which has
been classified ever since the introduction of classification in 1855.
Tonight’s
port from Warre, the well known port lodge, is of the 1970 vintage, one of
the best available today. It has lain in our stocks for more than twenty
five years and is likely to provide enjoyment to our members and guests
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The City turn out to
support
The Worshipful Company of World Traders
Annual Tacitus Lecture
at the Guildhall, London
24th February 2005
Catering for 850 guests at the reception
was provided by The Cook & The Butler
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