NML home > Online exhibitions > Romance > Baltic Valentine menu, 1913

Our venues

Romance online exhibition

Introduction
- Lovebirds
- 'The Morning of St Valentine', by John C Horsley
- Valentine display in Woolworth's, 1937
- Sweetheart brooch
- Seizure of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'
- Shrimp pot
- Ladies night dance programme
- 'Kissing bug'
- Pair of Valentine cards, 1850-1900
- French rose
- Sailor's farewell
- Joseph Denham letter
- 'Love tormenting the soul', by John Gibson
- Locarno handbill, 1963
- Inuit boots
- Rialto Ballroom handbill, 1937
- Sailor's valentine
- 'An Idyll', by Maurice W Greiffenhagen
- Cupid cup and saucer
- Romantic moths
- Baltic Valentine menu, 1913
- 'Our first tiff', by Robert W Macbeth
- Heart shaped silver plate

Baltic Valentine menu, 1913

Archive reference number DX/2123

Menu cover with line drawing illustration of a liner art sea

Baltic Valentine menu cover

This menu, from the collection of the Maritime Archives and Library, is for the Valentine Day meal on 14th February 1913 on the Baltic, White Star Line.

The meal consisted of hors d'oeuvres of celery, green turtle soup, Scotch salmon rémoulade, casserole of chicken à la Madrid, roast grouse, salade mercédès, pudding à l'Ambassadeur and lemon ices for dessert.