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Savory dishes seasoned with nutmeg tend to the old-fashioned: forcemeats, haggis, béchamel-coated vegetables and piped Duchess potatoes.

Yes, you’re cooking at home, whoever you are, but Pomeroy is having you cook things such as hazelnut and wild mushroom pâté, lacquered duck confit and duchess potatoes with smoked onion soubise.

The grilled beef tenderloin, a special one night, featured beautifully cooked meat, but, again, there were precious few asparagus spears alongside an appropriately sized blossom of duchess potatoes.

January 29 Lobster Canapes Cream of Oyster Soup Crackers Olives Celery Planked Shad, Roe Sauce Duchess Potatoes Cucumbers, French Dressing *Cabinet Pudding Coffee *Cabinet Pudding—8 stale lady fingers, 12 macaroons, 3 tablespoons cherries, currants, and citron peel chopped fine, 1 tablespoon sugar, 3 eggs, 1 pint milk, 2 teaspoons Crisco, and vanilla extract.