The cook's oracle: containing practical receipts. To which are added 130 new receipts / [Anon].

  • Kitchiner, William, 1775?-1827
Date:
1822
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Credit: The cook's oracle: containing practical receipts. To which are added 130 new receipts / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Vll their own importance — perhaps their only means of Existence—may be for ever eclipsed — so as Pope says — “ All fear,—None aid you,—and Few understand.” Improvements in Agriculture and the Breed of Cattle have been encouraged by Premiums; — (see Note under (No. 19.) and under (No. 59.) Those who have obtained them, have been hailed as benefactors to Society,—but the Art of making use of these means of ameliorating Life, and supporting a healthy Existence—Cookery, has been neglected. While the cultivators of the raw materials are distinguished and rewarded, — the attempt to improve the processes, without which, neither Vegetable nor Animal substances are fit for the food of Man (8,stonishing to say), has been ridiculed,—as unworthy the attention of a rational Being!!! This most useful* Art, — which the Editor has chosen to endeavour to illustrate, because nobody else has—and because he knew not how he could employ some leisure hours more beneficially • “ The only test of the utility of Knowledge, is iis promoting the Iwppiness of mankind.”—Dr. Staiik on Diet, p. 90.