Menus made easy; or, how to order dinner and give the dishes their French names / By Nancy Lake.

  • Lake, Nancy.
Date:
[1888?]
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Credit: Menus made easy; or, how to order dinner and give the dishes their French names / By Nancy Lake. 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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    INTRODUCTION. This publication is a bumble endeavour to afford some assistance to ladies in the daily difficulty of what to order for dinner, and how to describe it. Cooks are not generally gifted with fertile imagi- nations, and are inclined to get into a routine which is a source of annoyance to those who desire a variety of dishes, if not for themselves, at least for their friends. Ladies often wish to be ready with suggestions of a change in the proposals of the cook, and even when in some measure provided with these, a second difficulty arises—what are these dishes to be called ? What are the correct technical names for them ? The French of cookery is a language of itself, and those who are not learned in it arc often entirely at a loss when suddenly called on to write out a correct French menu with no other assistance than that of a dictionary. In carrying out this idea, lists of