Dobbin House Tavern Menu

Alexander Dobbin Dining Room Menu

• Compleat Suppers
  Including, but not limited to, your choice of main courfe, served up with potato of the day.
• Garden Stuff

  $2.50
  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 or spinache sallade with hot bacon dreffing.
• 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.

• Harvey's Bristol Cream Sherry
• Dry Sack Sherry
• Dubonnet
• Taylor Dry Sherry
• Taylor Cream Sherry
• Champagne Cocktail
• Gimlet
• Marguerita
• Rob Roy
• Old Fashioned
• Bloody Mary
• Bacardi Cocktail
• Daiquiri
• Wine Spritzer
• Pina Colada 2 reviews
• Harvey Wallbanger
• Singapore Sling
• Planters Punch
• Tom Collins
• Screw Driver
• Brandy Alexander
• Rusty Nail
• Stinger

• Avacado Louis
  Chilled backfin crabmeat difposed in a fanciful manner atop an avacado. Served with sauce louis, a creamy blend of herbs and lemon.
• 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.
• Fruit Fancy

  $6.95
  Our adams county is one of the leaders in fruit production in the united states. We are proud to provide the seafons beft fruit stuff fixed in the best manner of local receipts.
• Baked King's Onion Soup

  $6.25
  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

  $5.75
  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

  $13.50
  Steamed over a gill of small beer and selected seafonings. Served with a sauce of spicy persuasion.

• Oven Roasted Vegetables

  $19.95
  Carrots, mushrooms, onions, and squash served with pasta & tomato sauce.
• Vegetable Sautee'

  $19.95
  Broccoli, cauliflower, mushrooms, and vegetable of the day served 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 and Fish

  $39.95
  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

  $28.95
  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

  $23.95
  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

  $29.95
  Cooked according to the strength of fire you prefer, and served up hot and on a china plate steeped in its own savory liquor.
• Primal Rib of Beef (James')

  $29.95
  Melt in your mouth standing beef rib, cooked to your choice of doneness in a reflector oven with its own juice steeped therein. The larger portion goes to dobbin's favorite son for being the firft attorney to be admitted to our new county's bar.
• Primal Rib of Beef (Smiths')

  $25.95
  Melt in your mouth standing beef rib, cooked to your choice of doneness in a reflector oven with its own juice steeped therein. 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.
• Veal Madeira

  $24.95
  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

  $29.95
  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

  $29.95
  Three tender chops broiled to the strength of fire you prefer. Served up with peppered merlot sauce. Succulently delicious.
• William Penn's Pork Tenderloin

  $24.95
  Agreeably cut pork tenderloin, sufficiently broiled and made ready to difh with an outftanding rafpberry sauce.

• Broiled Lobster Tail
  A splendid delicacy from farther away than we can imagine, tafting admirably well. A 12 oz. Tail with drawn butter.
• Fine Fowl with Shrimps

  $25.95
  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

  $26.95
  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

  $26.95
  Rich with natural goodness, broiled and served up hot, containing more 'juft crabmeat' than you've ever seen.
• Seafood Isabella

  $29.95
  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

  $26.95
  Lump crabmeat topped withimperial sauce and his majefty's favorite spices. Baked to a proper brownness. Eats finely done thus.
• Seafarers Feast

  $39.95
  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.
• Drunken Scallops

  $29.95
  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.
• Fresh Catch of the Day

  $26.95
  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.

• Coffee 42 reviews
• Brewed Decaffinated
• English Tea (For Loyalists)
• Lemonade 10 reviews
• Iced Tea 12 reviews
• Sprite
• Ginger Ale
• Diet Coke
• Coke
• Milk or Ibc Root Beer

• Lemon Spice
• Orange Spice
• Constant Comment

• Peppermint Herbal
• Cinnamon Apple Herbal

• Ice Cream 33 reviews
• Sorbet 5 reviews
• Gulielma Penn's
• Cheesecake 41 reviews
• Receipt After the Best Manner
• Mrs. Dobbin's Dessert of the Day
• Pecan Pye
• Adams County Apple Pye

Springhouse Tavern Menu

• Chardonnay
• Merlot 1 review
• White Zinfandel

• Rum Bellies Vengeance
  The drink of the dobbin house. An absolutely incredible concoction of the light & dark rums, exotic liqueurs, & fruit juices, the potency of which mandates a limit of two (2) per customer. Truly, a genuine bargain.
• Don's Derring-Do
  We twisted our bartenders arm 'til he divulged his secret recipe for this flavored blend of apricot brandy, orange & pineapple juices, & southern comfort.
• Philadelphia Fish House Punch
  Rev. Dobbin may well have discovered this comingling of rum, brandy, peach brandy, & fruit juices while hobnobbing with the likes of washington & jefferson at philadelphia city tavern.

• Porridge of the Day

  $3.95
  Homemade soup made here by carefully boiling over coals with no smoke or dirt therein from stirring the fire. Served up hot & delicious in a pipkin with sippets.
• Baked King's Onion Soup

  $5.95
  Freshly made with beef and a variety of cheeses on top, baked in a 'quick' oven to succulent tenderness, and served up hot and delicious in a tureen with sippets.
• Warm Maryland Colony Crab Dip

  $12.95
  A dobbin house favorite, warm & creamy served with fresh vegetables & crackers.
• Chicken and Bleu Cheese Dip

  $10.50
  Warm & creamy chicken, shallots, bacon and bleu cheese served with toasted french bread.

• Gill of Porridge and Half Sallade

  $8.50
  Actually "extraordinary." A cup of fresh soup, a tureen of greens, garden sallade, spinache sallade or caesear sallade.
• Spinache Sallade

  $7.50
  Fresh mushrooms, black olives, croutons, bacon & onion rings in company, served with hot bacon dressing.
• Fresh Garden Sallade

  $7.50
  A tureen of fresh greens tossed with cucumbers, carrots, broccoli, cauliflower, bell pepper, tomato and mushrooms with the dreffing you prefer. Served with hearth baked roll.
• Caesar Sallade

  $7.50
  A tureen of romaine, croutons & onion rings in company with a caesear dressing. Served with a hearth baked roll.
• Half of Sallade and Half of Sandwich

  $8.50
  A small sallade & a half dobbin's deli sandwich. Choice of: garden, spinache, or caesar sallade. Choice of: ham, roast beef, or turkey. Choice of: white, whole wheat or rye.
• Gill of Porridge and Half Sandwich

  $8.50
  A cup of fresh soup & a half dobbin's deli sandwich. Choice of: ham, roast beef, or turkey. Choice of: potato sallade, cole sla, or potato chips.
• Gill of Porridge & Half Sallade

  $8.50
  A cup of fresh soup & a small sallade. Choice of: garden, spinache, or caesar sallade.
• Adam's Delight

  $9.95
  Native fresh fruits of the season, assortment of cheeses, accompanied by homemade sweet bread.
• Salamagundi

  $9.50
  Fresh garden greens with the lean of smokehouse ham, turkey, cook'd eggs, swiss & provolone cheese. Served with a hearth baked roll.
• Springhouse Spread

  $9.50
  Fresh garden greens tossed with nuts and served with smoked turkey, apple wedges, honey mustard dip and homemade sweet bread.

• Grilled Marinated Chicken Breast Sandwich

  $9.75
  A tender boneless breast of chicken layed to rest over night in a delicate wine & herb marinade. Then charcoal grilled and served up on a hearth baked roll with mayonnaise, lettuce & tomato. Choice of potato sallade, cole sla, or potato chips.
• Char-Grilled Steak Sandwich

  $13.50
  A flavorful and tender portion of beef steak cook'd according to the strength of fire you prefer, and served up open faced on hearth baked bread with sauteed onions & mushrooms. Choice of potato sallade, cole sla, or potato chips.
• Spit Roasted Chicken

  $15.25
  Half chicken dinner. You'll love our tender, fresh bird skewered to a spit and turned continuously in front of a clear brisk fire until it has a delicate brown and crisp outside, and is moist and tender inside. Basted on its own juices and sprinkled with a special blend of slightly spicy seasonings, this healthy meal is served up hot from the spit with a nice garden sallade, a baked potatoe and a hearth baked roll. Served after 5 p.m. Monday - friday and all day saturday and sunday.
• Dobbin's Hot Beef Sandwich

  $9.50
  Tender roast beef piled high on a hearth baked roll. Served up with its own juices for dipping. Choice of potato sallade, cole sla, or potato chips.
• Maryland Colony Crabcakes

  $24.95
  More just crabmeat than you've ever seen! Served with a tossed sallade, baked potato and a hearth baked roll.
• Char-Grilled Filet Mignon

  $24.95
  A 6 0z filet grilled to your choice of doneness and served up in it's own juices. Served with a tossed sallade, baked potato and hearth baked roll.
• Dobbin's Filet Mignon and Crabcake

  $29.95
  A 6 oz. Filet grilled to your choice of doneness and a just crabmeat crabcake. Served with a tossed salad, baked potato and hearth baked roll.
• Char-Grilled Marinated Chicken Breast

  $16.50
  A tender & complete boneless breast of chicken layed to rest over night in a delicate wine & herb marinade. Served up with a tossed sallade, potato of the day and a hearth baked roll.
• Grilled Catch of the Day
  A generous portion of tender fish steak grilled until done to perfection. Served up with a tossed sallade, baked potato and hearth baked roll. Your servant will gladly describe today's selection.
• Char-Grilled New York Strip Steak

  $23.95
  Partake of rev. Dobbin's favorite, a flavorful and tender portion of beef steak, carved from the finest meats. Cook'd according to the strength of fire you prefer and served up with a tossed sallade, baked potato and a hearth baked roll.
• Maryland Colony Crabcake Sandwich

  $13.50
  More just crabmeat than you've ever seen. Served up hot on french bread with dijon balsamic mayonnaise. Choice of potato sallade, cole sla, or potato chips.
• Vegetables

  $2.50
  Our fertile pennsylvania countryside supplies the finest of vegetables. We search the markets for the best and freshest.

• The Mason's Mile High

  $9.95
  Meats & such piled almost as high as the stone walls of the dobbin house. But much straighter. Choice of hearth white, rye, whole wheat. Choice of two: smokehouse ham, roast beef, or turkey. Served up with mayonnaise, lettuce & tomato. Choice of potato sallade, cole sla, or potato chips.
• Freshly Ground Dobbin's Hamburgers

  $9.50
  Freshly ground hamburger char-grilled to the strength of fire you prefer and served up on a hearth baked roll with lettuce and tomato. Choice of potato sallade, cole sla, or potato chips.

• Corned Beef 6 reviews

  $8.50
• Bacon 47 reviews , Lettuce, and Tomato

  $8.50
• Roast Beef 64 reviews

  $8.50
• Roast Beef and Swiss Cheese

  $8.50
• Smokehouse Ham

  $8.50
• Ham and Swiss Cheese

  $8.50
• Turkey Breast

  $8.50
• Turkey Breast and Provolone Cheese

  $8.50
• Tuna Sallade

  $8.50

• Ham and Swiss Cheese

  $9.50
• Turkey Breast and Provolone Cheese

  $9.50
• Tuna Sallade and Provolone Cheese

  $9.50
• Roast Beef and Swiss Cheese

  $9.50

• Vegetable and Provolone Lettuce

  $9.50
  Tomato, red onion, cucumbers and carrots.
• Roast Beef and Sharp Cheese

  $9.50
• Ham and Swiss Cheese

  $9.50
• Turkey Breast and Provolone Cheese

  $9.50

• Roast Beef and Sharp Cheese

  $9.50
  Lettuce, tomato and dijon mayonnaise.
• Turkey Breast and Swiss Cheese

  $9.50
  Spinache, tomato, red onions and dijon mayonnaise.
• Grilled Smokehouse Ham and Swiss Cheese

  $9.50
  Romaine, tomato and dijon mayonnaise.

• Ham 20 reviews , Spinach, Mushrooms and Sharp Cheese

  $9.50
  On whole wheat.
• Turkey Breast, Bacon 47 reviews , and Swiss Cheese 2 reviews

  $9.50
  On whole wheat.
• Tuna Sallade, Bacon and Sharp Cheese

  $9.50
  On whole wheat.

• Mrs. Penn's Cheesecake Receipt
  After the best manner with cherry or blueberry topping.
• Hot Adams Apple Pye
  Native pippins between a delicate paste.
• Warm Colonial Gingerbread
  With lemon sauce. The secret of this bread lies in watchful baking in a gentle oven.
• Fudge Brownie 1 review
  With ice cream and chocolate sauce.
• Pecan Pye
  A favorite among the colonies.
• Ice Cream and Sorbet
  George washington loves it.

• Sparkling Cyder
  A country drink locally pressed of sustenance from breakfast to bedtime for women, children, farmers, etc. A gesture of hospitality. Glass or bottle.
• Coffee 42 reviews
  With another if you like.
• English Tea
  With another if you like. For loyalists.
• Liberty Herbal Tea
  For patriots.
• Iced Tea 12 reviews
• Lemonade 10 reviews
• Milk
• Sprite
• Ginger Ale
• Diet Coke
• Coke
• Ibc Root Beer
• Diet Ibc Rootbeer

Banquet Dinner

• Salad And Bread Bar
  lavish 25 item salad bar, fresh baked breads.
• Entrees
  chicken coq au vin, baked ham with pineapple raisin sauce, stuffed shells and tomato sauce.
• Vegetables
  rice pilaf, oven roasted red potatoes, buttered dilled carrots, green beans almondine.
• Desserts
  fudge brownies, blueberry trifle, gingerbread with lemon sauce, colonial pudding cake.
• Beverages
  coffee, tea, or iced tea.

• Salad And Bread Bar
  lavish 25 item salad bar, fresh baked breads.
• Entrees
  select three - one from each (chicken, seafood, beef tips). chicken: hunters style, coq au vin, garden style, cacciatore; seafood: diane, newburg, creole, potpourri, beef tips: stroganoff, diane, peppered with mushroom, garden style; ham with pineapple raisin sauce; prime rib carved (add $6 per person).
• Vegetables
  select four: rice pilaf, mashed potatoes, oven roasted red potatoes, glazed sweet potatoes, o'brien potatoes, buttered corn, buttered dill carrots, green beans almondine, broccoli and cauliflower with cheese sauce, seasonal mixed vegetables.
• Desserts
  select three: chocolate cake, fudge brownies, colonial pudding cake, gingerbread with lemon sauce, fruit tarts, blueberry trifle, cherry crumb pie, chocolate mousse.
• Beverages
  coffee, tea, or iced tea.

• Tossed Salad
  with herb dressing.
• Home Baked Breads
• Entree
  choice: baked chicken hunters style, broiled fillet of salmon, primal rib of beef, baked potato, seasonal vegetable.
• Dessert
• Beverages
  coffee, tea, or iced tea.

• Tossed Garden Salad
  with homemade dressing
• Hot Home Baked Breads
  with whipped butter
• Entree
  choices: broiled flounder with lemon butter; baked chicken with mushrooms, supreme sauce; baked smithfield ham with pineapple raisin sauce.
• Extras
  baked white potato; seasonal vegetable; chocolate cake; coffee, tea, or iced tea.

• Cup Of Homemade Soup

  $3.50

• Tossed Garden Salad
  with vegetable toppings and homemade herb dressing.
• Spinach Salad 37 reviews
  with toppings and hot bacon dressing. $1.50 extra.
• Caesar Salad 20 reviews
  with toppings and caesar dressing. $1.50 extra.

• Baked Chicken

  $22
  stuffed with cornbread stuffing.
• Petite Filet Mignon

  $31
  served au jus.
• Maryland Crab Cakes

  $31
  two 4 oz. broiled jumbo lump crab cakes.
• Filet Mignon And Lobster Tail

  $43
  6 oz. filet mignon, 6 oz. lobster tail.

• Baked Potato
• Seasonal Vegetable

• Chocolate Mousse
• Fruit Tarts
• Fudge Brownies 1 review
• Gingerbread With Lemon Sauce
• Blueberry Trifle
• Cherry Crumb Pie
• Colonial Pudding Cake

• Coffee 42 reviews
• Tea 22 reviews
• Tea 22 reviews

Banquet Luncheon

• Soup And Salad Bar
  lavish 25 item salad bar including: soup of the day, fresh salad making, homemade dressings, homemade relish condiments.
• Entrees
  assorted cold cuts and cheeses, turkey, smokehouse ham, swiss cheese, provolone cheese, pa dutch (ham, green beans and boiled potatoes), bar-b-qued chicken.
• Desserts
  fudge brownies, chocolate cake, gingerbread with lemon sauce, vanilla pudding.
• Beverages
  coffee, tea, or iced tea.

• Brown Sack Lunch

  $9.25
  turkey or ham sandwich, potato chips, apple, brownie, water or soda.

Student Group Menus

• Breads And Muffins
• Entrees
  scrambled eggs, bacon, home fried potatoes.
• Assorted Cold Cereals
• Orange Juice For All
• Coffee And Hot Tea For The Adults

• Soup And Salad Bar
• Entrees
  turkey and ham cold cuts; swiss and provolone cheese; white, wheat and rye breads; bar-b-qued chicken; penna pasta in tomato sauce.
• Desserts
  fudge brownies, chocolate cake, vanilla pudding, colonial pudding cake.
• Beverages
  lemonade for the students; coffee, tea, iced tea for the adults.

• 25 Item Salad Bar
• Fresh Baked Breads
• Entrees
  chicken coq au vin, baked ham with pineapple raisin sauce, stuffed shells in tomato sauce.
• Vegetables
  rice pilaf, parsley boiled potatoes, buttered dill carrots, green bean almondine.
• Desserts
  fudge brownies, blueberry trifle, vanilla pudding, colonial pudding cake.
• Beverages
  water and lemonade for students; coffee, tea, and ice tea for adults.

Luncheons Menu

• Cup Of Homemade Soup

  $2.75
• Hot Homemade White And Sweet Breads

  $1.25
  our house specialty! with whipped butter. guaranteed to delight your group.

• Hot Sandwiches 45 reviews

  $13.95
  served on whole wheat bread. choice of: turkey with bacon and swiss cheese, hot ham and swiss, reuben on rye bread.
• Cup Of Homemade Soup

  $13.95
  sliced turkey on a hearth baked roll with potato chips.
• Chicken Caesar Salad

  $13.95
  a classic caesar salad served with grilled marinated chicken.
• Maryland Crab Cake Sandwich

  $17.50
  4 oz. jumbo lump crab cake served with potato chips.
• Grilled Chicken Breast Sandwich

  $14.25
  marinated chicken served with potato chips.
• Baked Chicken

  $14.50
  with mushrooms and supreme sauce. served with a baked potato. include a tossed salad topped with homemade dressing.
• Broiled Flounder

  $15.50
  with lemon butter, served with baked potato. include a tossed salad topped with homemade dressing.
• Pa Dutch Ham, Green Beans

  $14.50
  and boiled potatoes. include a tossed salad topped with homemade dressing.
• Seafood Newburg

  $15.50
  (min 20) scallops, shrimp and fish. served with rice. include a tossed salad topped with homemade dressing.
• Pa Dutch Boiled Chicken Pot Pie

  $15.50
  (min 20) include a tossed salad topped with homemade dressing.

• Fudge Brownies 1 review
• Blueberry Trifle
• Gingerbread With Lemon Sauce
• Colonial Pudding Cake
• Chocolate Cake 14 reviews
• Cherry Crumb Pie

• Coffee 42 reviews
• Tea 22 reviews
• Iced Tea 12 reviews