Soyer's Culinary Campaign: Being Historical Reminiscences of the Late War.: With The Plain Art of Cookery for Military and Civil Institutions

the state of perfection in which it now is; which system I am confident will, by the introduction of my printed receipts, be adopted at home in the civil as well as military hospitals--it having been submitted to both military and civilian medical officers, who have approved the same, and also assisted me with their valuable knowledge and suggestions in its formation. With the highest consideration, I have the honour to be, Your most obedient servant, A. SOYER. _To the Right Hon. Lord Panmure, Secretary-at-War._ BARRACK HOSPITAL, SCUTARI, _March 11th, 1856_. MY LORD,--The ship _Cape of Good Hope_, with the first consignment of my stoves on board, has just passed through the Bosphorus to Balaklava, and, to my great disappointment, without stopping here; as I was in daily expectation of her arrival in order to proceed in her to the Crimea, and distribute them to the different regiments, having with that view requested from the Admiralty-office, and the wharf-master at Scutari, notice of her arrival. I have just been apprised that the ship was ordered direct for Balaklava, and I shall follow her as early as possible. I have written to head-quarters to that effect, and beg to enclose the copy of a letter to General Storks, in which your lordship will perceive how highly I approve of the introduction of the new Medical Staff Corps. I have the honour to be, Your most obedient servant, A. SOYER. CHAPTER XXXII. CAMP OF THE FOURTH DIVISION. Excellent quality of the stoves--Mr. Phillips--Strange way of repairing--Interview with General Codrington--installed on Cathcart’s Hill--Gourmet and gourmand--Lessons to the soldier-cooks--Receipt to cook salt meat for fifty men--Army soup for fifty men--Success of my stoves--The grand breakfast--Guests--Economy--Use of the fat--General Garrett’s testimony--Giving-parties mania--Invitations--My first dinner--Amusements--General Lüders’s invitation to the Allied Commanders--Scene on the Mackenzie Heights--Fraternization--Hospitality of the Tartar families. I thus had the opportunity of taking my civilian cooks away with me, as I wanted their services in the Crimea. Upon my arrival at Balaklava, I paid my respects to General Codrington. My stoves had arrived just before, and the fact of their having been adopted