Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine

The Project Gutenberg eBook of Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org. If you are not located in the United States, you will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this eBook. Title: Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine Author: William Carew Hazlitt Release date: May 1, 2004 [eBook #12293] Most recently updated: October 28, 2024 Language: English Other information and formats: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12293 Credits: E-text prepared by David Starner, Alicia Williams, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team *** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK OLD COOKERY BOOKS AND ANCIENT CUISINE *** Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 12293-h.htm or 12293-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/1/2/2/9/12293/12293-h/12293-h.htm) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/1/2/2/9/12293/12293-h.zip) The Book-Lover's Library Edited by Henry B. Wheatley, F.S.A. OLD COOKERY BOOKS AND ANCIENT CUISINE BY W. CAREW HAZLITT London 1902 _THE BOOK-LOVERS LIBRARY_ was first published in the following styles: No. 1.--Printed on antique paper, in cloth bevelled with rough edges, price 4s. 6d. No. 2.--Printed on hand-made paper, in Roxburgh, half morocco, with gilt top: 250 only are printed, for sale in England, price 7s. 6d. No. 3.--Large paper edition, on hand-made paper; of which 50 copies only are printed, and bound in Roxburgh, for sale in England, price £1 1s. There are a few sets left, and can be had on application to the Publisher. INTRODUCTORY Man has been distinguished from other animals in various ways; but perhaps there is no particular in which he exhibits so marked a difference from the rest of creation--not even in the prehensile faculty resident in his hand--as in the objection to raw food, meat, and vegetables. He approximates to his inferior contemporaries only in the matter of fruit, salads, and oysters, not to