French domestic cookery : combining economy with elegance, and adapted to the use of families of moderate fortune / By an English physician, many years resident on the Continent.

Date:
1825
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Credit: French domestic cookery : combining economy with elegance, and adapted to the use of families of moderate fortune / By an English physician, many years resident on the Continent. 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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    PREFATORY REMARKS. Few publications of importance on the subject of French cookery having appeared in this country within the last thirty years, with the exception of “ Udes French Cook,” a book of merit, but which is more particularly adapted for the supply of the tables of the opulent, the present work has been edited, in order to fill up this obvious deficiency in our family libraries, by laying before the British public a copious selection of the most simple and least expensive receipts in French cookery ; with the especial view of proving that the generally received opinion of the middle classes in this country, respecting French dishes, namely, that they are almost all unwholesome, extravagant, and difficultly prepared, is founded in prejudice, and is either false, or highly exaggerated j contrary conclusions having been arrived at by the other nations of Europe, all of which follow the system of French cookery much nearer than ’^ohnBull, whose gastric propensities are still so far con- fined to the favourite fare of his ancestors, as to prefer the ponderous solidity of British roast beef and plum pudding, to the almost boundless variety of dishes contrived by the ingenuity of French cooks. b