Common-Sense Papers on Cookery

The Project Gutenberg eBook of Common-Sense Papers on Cookery 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: Common-Sense Papers on Cookery Author: A. G. Payne Release date: January 16, 2020 [eBook #61185] Most recently updated: October 17, 2024 Language: English Other information and formats: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/61185 Credits: Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) *** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK COMMON-SENSE PAPERS ON COOKERY *** COMMON-SENSE PAPERS ON COOKERY. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ COMMON-SENSE PAPERS ON COOKERY. BY A. G. PAYNE. CASSELL PETTER & GALPIN: London, Paris & New York. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 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