William Verral

A Complete System of Cookery William Verral

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1759 Excerpt: ... Page. Olives with rocombole 220 Cups of eggs, with gravy of partridge 221 Cups a Vamande, with sweet biscuit 223 Piece of beef with jelly 224. Turkey larded with bacon a la glass 225 Hare cake 2 2 7 A partridge-pye cold, with forcemeat 229 The manner of the French in getting up their roafl for second course 231 Poor mans sauce 233 Sauce Robert ibid. Sauce pauvrade 234. The bes method of dissecting, preparing, a?id dressing of a turtle 235 P R E F A C E. R 0 M a presumption of some small success from my friends I venture to publish the following treatise. To pretend to write for fame would illy become a person in my sphefe of life (who am no more than what is vulgarly called a poor publican.) ""Twould be an unparalleled piece of imprudence, and wholly incompatible to reason and the nature of things. 'Twill be sufficient B for for me that it meets with that approbation amongst my friends and acquaintance, as may just satisfy me for the pains I have taken to collet! them (though snail matters) together. The chief end and defgn of this part of my little volume is to shew, both to the experienced and unexperienced in the busnefs, the whole and fmple art of the most modern and best French Cookery to lay down before them such an unerring guide how it may always be well managed, and please the eye as well as the tafle of every body, and to shew too, by the notorious errors I have frequently seen, how of course it mufi for ever fail of being either good or pleasing, and a great many favourite morsels entirely spoiled. Firs the fl, give me leave to advise those who please to try the sollowing receipts, to provide a proper apparatus for the work they take in hand, without which it is impossible it can be done with the leas air of decency: and before t snish this, sha...