Name: Common-sense papers on cookery
Author: A. G. Payne

■MMiii ptl |m|1 SpxsSw IssU :• . V. .. Wlllll ' iflpfllj pitii iw IIW.IMIWI1 ffxnwaiw^ i‘'«j!KX2id&*?ta»MS*w S&si avinr iljJ u aowti London Borough of Camden Swiss Cottage Library 88 Avenue Road LONDON NW33HA _ S il vj CK Tel: 01 278 4444 Extensions: Book Renewals 3021 Lending Library 3012 This book is due for return on or before the date stamped below. The period of loan can be extended if the book' is not reserved (please ask for details of renewal facilities) ' Fines are charged on Lending Li miff: ■fciQO.O K..I.Q.A aOl.iF.QK COMMON-SENSE PAPERS COOKERY. Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2015 https://archive.org/details/b21537653 COMMON-SENSE PAPERS ON COOKERY. BY A. G. PAYNE. Cassell Petter & Galpin: London, Paris New York. 64-1 - S’ T 8 7 0 7 8 1 A(M£c9 PREFACE. The present work has no pretensions to be a complete book on Cooking, but is simply a series of papers (which originally appeared in Cassell’s Magazine) in which the endeavour has been, to impart a certain amount of useful knowledge of the Art of Cooking, by giving recipes at greater length than would be possible in any ordinary Cookery Book. Ordinary Cookery Books, though of the greatest utility, are, like dictionaries, seldom if ever read through. In the present work, which contains all the important elements and first principles of Cookery necessary to be learnt, in order to render ordinary works on the subject intelligible, the attempt has been made to so mingle recipes with anecdote, that the perusal 6 Preface. of the book may be a means of entertainment as well as of useful information. The work is intended more for the drawing- room than for the kitchen, for the Author believes that, among the great mass of the middle classes in this country — the class that is suffering most from the incapacity of domestic servants — the remedy lies with themselves. A helpless mistress too often makes helpless servants. It is in the hope of curing some of this wide-spread helplessness amongst ladies that the following papers have been written. CONTENTS PAGE I. — Uses and Abuses of a Frying-Pan ... 9 II. — Kitchen Economy 22 III. — Little Extravagancies of the Table . . • 32 IV. — Cold Leg of Mutton ...... 43 V. — How to make Dishes look nice . . . • 5^ VI. — Breakfast Dishes ...... 68 VII.— How to give a nice little Dinner . . . -79 VIII. — How to give a nice little Supper . . -93 IX. — Spring Dishes ....... 104 X. — Savoury Summer Dishes . . . . .1x4 XI. — Salads, and how to make them . . . .127 XII. — Picnic Dainties . . . . . . .138 XIII. — Cooling Drinks ....... 149 XIV. — Game and Gravy (including How to Cook Hare) 160 XV. — Food for Cold Weather . . . . .182 XVI. — Christmas Dinners (including Christmas Cheer) . 191 XVII. — Turtle Soup 209 XVIII. — Fish Dinners 221 XIX. — Wedding Breakfasts ...... 233 XX. — ’Food for Invalids . . . . . .241 COMMON-SENSE PAPERS ON COOKERY. I.— THE USES AND ABUSES OF A FRYING-PAN. “We had such an awful time of it with Mary Ann !” Probably, never have the domestic trials and difficulties of young housekeepers been summed up in fewer or more expressive words. However, the more we look into the world, the more we find it to be the'case that we make our Mary Anns, and not our Mary Anns us.

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■MMiii ptl |m|1 SpxsSw IssU :• . V. .. Wlllll ' iflpfllj pitii iw IIW.IMIWI1 ffxnwaiw^ i‘'«j!KX2id&*?ta»MS*w S&si avinr iljJ u aowti London Borough of Camden Swiss Cottage Library 88 Avenue Road LONDON NW33HA _ S il vj CK Tel: 01 278 4444 Extensions: Book Renewals 3021 Lending Library 3012 This book is due for return on or before the date stamped below. The period of loan can be extended if the book' is not reserved (please ask for details of renewal facilities) ' Fines are charged on Lending Li miff: ■fciQO.O K..I.Q.A aOl.iF.QK COMMON-SENSE PAPERS COOKERY. Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2015 https://archive.org/details/b21537653 COMMON-SENSE PAPERS ON COOKERY. BY A. G. PAYNE. Cassell Petter & Galpin: London, Paris New York. 64-1 - S’ T 8 7 0 7 8 1 A(M£c9 PREFACE. The present work has no pretensions to be a complete book on Cooking, but is simply a series of papers (which originally appeared in Cassell’s Magazine) in which the endeavour has been, to impart a certain amount of useful knowledge of the Art of Cooking, by giving recipes at greater length than would be possible in any ordinary Cookery Book. Ordinary Cookery Books, though of the greatest utility, are, like dictionaries, seldom if ever read through. In the present work, which contains all the important elements and first principles of Cookery necessary to be learnt, in order to render ordinary works on the subject intelligible, the attempt has been made to so mingle recipes with anecdote, that the perusal Preface. of the book may be a means of entertainment as well as of useful information. The work is intended more for the drawingroom than for the kitchen, for the Author believes that, among the great mass of the middle classes in this country — the class that is suffering most from the incapacity of domestic servants — the remedy lies with themselves. A helpless mistress too often makes helpless servants. It is in the hope of curing some of this wide-spread helplessness amongst ladies that the following papers have been written. CONTENTS I. — Uses and Abuses of a Frying-Pan ... 9 II. — Kitchen Economy 22 III. — Little Extravagancies of the Table . . • 32 IV. — Cold Leg of Mutton ...... 43 V. — How to make Dishes look nice . . . • 5^ VI. — Breakfast Dishes ...... 68 VII.— How to give a nice little Dinner . . . -79 VIII. — How to give a nice little Supper . . -93 IX. — Spring Dishes ....... 104 X. — Savoury Summer Dishes . . . . .1x4 XI. — Salads, and how to make them . . . .127 XII. — Picnic Dainties . . . . . . .138 XIII. — Cooling Drinks ....... 149 XIV. — Game and Gravy (including How to Cook Hare) 160 XV. — Food for Cold Weather . . . . .182 XVI. — Christmas Dinners (including Christmas Cheer) . 191 XVII. — Turtle Soup 209 XVIII. — Fish Dinners 221 XIX. — Wedding Breakfasts ...... 233 XX. — ’Food for Invalids . . . . . .241 COMMON-SENSE PAPERS ON COOKERY. I.— THE USES AND ABUSES OF A FRYING-PAN. “We had such an awful time of it with Mary Ann !” Probably, never have the domestic trials and difficulties of young housekeepers been summed up in fewer or more expressive words. However, the more we look into the world, the more we find it to be the'case that we make our Mary Anns, and not our Mary Anns us.