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Dobbin House Tavern
89 Steinwehr Ave
Gettysburg, PA 17325
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Main Menu
Daily Fare
compleat suppers: including, but not limited to, your choice of main courfe, served up with potato of the day
Garden Stuff
we have created a hofpitality sallade of the freshly picked garden greenstuff, to dreff your sallade, homemade delicately spiced herb, bleu cheese, fat free french, ranch dreffing or, you may choose: caesar sallade
- $2.50
- Spinache Sallade With Hot Bacon Dreffing $2.50
Homemade Breads, All Sorts
a basket of afforted colonial breads paffed to your table fresh from our own bakery, served up with a galipot of butter
Vegetables
$2.50
our fertile pennfylvania countryfide supplies the fineft of vegetables we search the markets for the beft and frefhest, your servant will be happy to defcribe the seasonal favorite prepared for tonight
Of Soups & C.
for a flavorful beginning
Avacado Louis
chilled backfin crabmeat difposed in a fanciful manner atop an avacado, served with sauce louis, a creamy blend of herbs and lemon
- Market Price
Appetizer Of The Day
a generous offering difposed in a fanciful manner to dreff your table, your servant will gladly defcribe the appetizer and its unique preparation
- Market Price
Fruit Fancy
$6.25Baked King's Onion Soup
$6.00
if you support the caufe of liberty from england as we do, and wish this soup to be re-named "washington's onion soup", so inform your waiter! freshly made with beef and a variety of cheefes on top, baked in a 'quick' oven to a succulent tenderness, and served up hot and delicious in a tureen
Porridge Of The Day
$5.50
freshly homemade soup prepared by carefully boiling over coals with no smoke or dirt therein from stirring the fire, served up steaming hot and heartily herb'd in a pipkin
Jumbo Shrimp Cocktail
$12.95
steamed over a gill of small beer and selected seafonings, served with a sauce of spicy persuasion
Of Soups & C. - Vegetarian Fare
for a flavorful beginning, on days when the hunt was not successful, mrs. dobbin often prepared delicious suppers with fresh adams county vegetables, this evening's selections include
Oven Roasted Vegetables
$19.95
with pasta & tomato sauce
Vegetable Sautee'
$19.95
with a crumb topped crown of tomato and potato of the day
Vegetable Isabella
$20.95
in the tradition of our "seafood isabella," fresh vegetables sauteed in a wine sauce & laid to rest on a bed of pasta
Of Flesh
as our land has progreffed from a 'wilderness' to a 'farm', our larder has changed from wild game to domestic beef, pork, and poultry, currently, we have 14 head of cattle which now sell for $0.07
Of Flesh And Fish
$38.95
a favorite among rev, dobbin's houfe guefts, vifitors come for miles to enjoy his treat. includes a 5-6 oz. lobfter tail and a 5 oz. filet mignon-thick, tender, and delicious, it eats extremely well
New York Colony Strip Steak, Carved To Order
$27.95
partake of rev, dobbin's favorite, a flavorful and tender portion of beef steak, carved from the fineft of meats, cooked to your choice of doneness and served up on a china plate with its own juices
Hunters Chicken
$22.95
rev, dobbin often afks for a tender, fresh bird perfectly prepared to a dobbin house specialty, baked boneless breast of chicken topped with tomatoes, mushrooms and brown sauce
Broiled Filet Mignon
$28.95
cooked according to the strength of fire you prefer, and served up hot and on a china plate steeped in its own savory liquor, fresh button mushrooms gently smothered in butter, chablis, & tarragon sauce
Of Flesh - Rev. Dobbin Suggests
primal rib of beef
Primal Rib Of Beef
$28.95
melt in your mouth standing beef rib, cooked to your choice of doneness in a reflector oven with its own juice steeped therein, james': the larger portion goes to dobbin's favorite son for being the firft attorney to be admitted to our new county's bar, smiths': the regular portion goes to dobbin's stepfon who's in trouble becaufe he carved his initials (s.a) on the mantle in the parlor $24.95
Veal Madeira Veal Madeira
$23.95
tender efcallopes of veal sauteed on a clear brisk fire, finished with a madeira scented sauce and penna, mushrooms a delicious cookery
Roast Duck Adams County
$27.95
president adams is proud of this tender 1/2 duckling roafted in our hearth oven with tart adams co. aples and hard cyder, served up juft right with a delicious cyder sauce seafoned delicately with citrus herbs, a true taste delight.
Trio Of Lamb Chops
$28.95
three tender chops broiled to the strength of fire you prefer, served up with peppered merlot sauce, succulently delicious
William Penn's Pork Tenderloin
$23.95
agreeably cut pork tenderloin, sufficiently broiled and made ready to difh with an outftanding rafpberry sauce, fresh button mushrooms gently smothered in butter, chablis, & tarragon sauce $2.50
Of Fish
reverend dobbin often journeys to philadelphia for synod meetings, he delights in returning with sea animals that mrs. dobbin loves to broil over a clear brifk fire for family and friends juft like you
Broiled Lobster Tail
a splendid delicacy from farther away than we can imagine, tafting admirably well, a 12 oz. tail with drawn butter
- Market Price
Fine Fowl With Shrimps
$24.95
in the 1800's the dobbin house was a station for the 'railroad' which served to efcort thousands of runaway slaves to freedom, rev, dobbin is againft slavery, and thus, all of the servants here tonight are merely indentured, they all recommend this boneless breast of chicken with tender shrimp sauteed over a clear brisk fire with a hint of garlic and white wine
Gettystown Shrimp
$25.95
a generous portion of tender shrimp topped with lump crabmeat and topped with his majefty's imperial sauce, then baked in a slow oven and served up on a pewter plate juft right
Maryland Colony Crabcakes
$25.95
rich with natural goodness, broiled and served up hot, containing more 'juft crabmeat' than you've ever seen
Seafood Isabella
$28.95
truly worth coming miles for rev dobbin's firft wife, ifabella, left him this secret family recipe. made of fresh vegetables with a medley of seafoods in a wine sauce, then simmered over hot ember 'til tender, dishes up on a bed of pasta, it answers well
Imperial Crab
$25.95
lump crabmeat topped withimperial sauce and his majefty's favorite spices, baked to a proper brownness, eats finely done thus
Seafarers Feast
a favorite of this area, which rev. dobbin now calls "gettiftown"! a generous portion of tafty offerings from the sea served up broiled 'til juft tender, as you wish: orange roughy, fillet of salmon, maryland crabcake, marinated shrimp, deep sea scallops
- $38.95
- With 5 - 6 Oz. Rock Lobster Tail $48.95
Drunken Scallops
$28.95
deep sea scallops sauteed with bacon and herbs, then drowned in chablis, served directly to you in a succulent sauce
Crabmeat A La Dobbin
lump blue crabmeat at its very beft, gently toffed in hot butter sauce until done to perfection, an agreeable dish
- Market Price
Fresh Catch Of The Day
$25.95
a generous portion of a tender offering from local streams or diftant seas difposed in a fanciful manner to dreff your table, your servant will gladly defcribe the catch and its unique preparation
Of Homemade Confectionaries & C. - Desserts
the deliciousness of the homemade desserts set forth below will, by reference to our confectionaries pamphlet, more full appear