Handbook of practical cookery : with an introduction on the philosophy of cookery.

  • Lees-Dods, Matilda.
Date:
1886
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Handbook of practical cookery : with an introduction on the philosophy of cookery. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    arriving at desired results. In response to sucli demand this volume has been prepared. Nothing has been included in it of which the practical worth has not been thoroughly- tested ; and it is believed that the examples have been so selected that, although of necessity limited in number, they demonstrate the whole theory and practice of the culinary art, and will make the reader familiar with the most approved methods and the latest attainments therein. The purpose of our work is now set forth, although, if the whole story were told, it might be proper to show how the original cook-book grew from an onion, the veritable “ Piece of chalot. Which she never forgot.” But this touches the romance of the whole matter, without which nothing, however prosaic, is complete. With such prose and such suggestions of romance as belong to my sub- ject, these pages are now submitted to the interpretation of those to whom my book is most affectionately dedicated— the world-wide sisterhood of housewives and their husbands —trusting that through its instrumentality all may be con- vinced that, while Heaven still furnishes the food, the Pro- methean fire of knowledge has redeemed the cooks.