Here is a menu for you history buffs. This is a civic reception given for returned soldiers of the Queenscliff area just after World War 2. It was paid for by the council and local citizens. The photograph of the men eating is interesting; where were the women hiding?? The list of dances brings back memories, I remember about 1/2 of them. It looks like the program was also a dance card as there is room to put the dance partner's name beside each dance (what are the odds that more than one dance couple married in the ensuing years). The menu is interesting as I believe rationing was still operational at this time and the use of "savouries" after sweets is a very traditional English habit. The desserts are also using the classical meaning of desserts being fruit and nuts. The fort was built in 1860 on the bluff to protect the entrance to Port Phillip Bay and was only decommissioned as an army post recently.
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