The English table in history and literature / by Charles Cooper.

  • Cooper, Charles, 1844-
Date:
[1929]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The English table in history and literature / by Charles Cooper. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Carving (1508), 2, 19 Carving at the table, 21 Carving-knives, Sharp-pointed, 18 Carving, The precise art of, 19, 20 Champagne, 101 Charles II, Household of, 64 Cheese and maggots, 37 Christmas dinner, A perfect, 174 Christmas fare, 74 - of Pepys, 65 Church opposes introduction of the fork, 17 Cider, 101 -Old custom of using, in cooking, 104 City banquet, At a, 203 City merchants’ dinner-party, 198 Classic dinner, A, 207 Cleanliness in the house, 28 Cleikum Club, 168 Club, Beefsteak, 72, 81 Coal, Cost of (1551), 40 Coal, Cost of (17th century), 69 “ Cock-a-leekie,” 172 Coffee-mills, 10 “Coffins,” 46 Colouring and perfume in cook¬ ery, 134 Compleat Body of Distilling (1729), 129 Cooking School, First, 150 Cook’s Oracle, 154 Cordials in 18th century, 124 Coryate, Tom, introduces the fork, 11, 16 Costly dinner-giving, 205 Costume regulations, 5 Cures for diseases and death, 59- 61 Custom of holding up hands and spoons, 11 D Decorating dishes, 178 Dessert-doily, 14 Devil-fish, 6 Diet, 31 Dietary and temperament, 35 Digby, Sir Kenelm, 106, 220 Digestion, 29 Dining, Art of, 176, 185 Dinners and suppers of Samuel Pepys, 65 Dinner courses, Legal enact¬ ments for, 4 Dinner in Paris 80 years ago, 187 Dinner platters of wood, 9 Dinner of field and hedgerow, 209 Dinner of sauces, 208 Dinners, Big, of ’seventies, 203 Disease, Treatment of, 31 Disinfectants in plague ravages, 61 Distillation, 129 Distillers’ Company, 122 Dods, Mistress Margaret, 164 Dormice, The, 210 Drinking vessels of horn and wood, 9 Ducks, Boiling and roasting, 50 Dudley, Earl of, 190 Duration of a dinner, 201 E Earthworms, Value of, 59 East wind, The, 29 Eccentric gastronomes, 208 Edward III, 3 Edward IV, 3 Edward VII, and smoking, 200 -- as gourmet, 204 Elderberries, 134, 135 Elder blossoms in salads, 135 Elderberry wine, 112 Elizabeth’s household expenses, 39 English cookery, 212 English vineyards, 98 Etiquette concerning the spoon, 12 Evan-Thomas, Owen, 9 Evelyn, John, 66