.M r ;-iW>-*. «o6 *^ „ .... -Lj J±J3f:f. J-e^^iL^ / 18JULK RDSEP 14 COMMON-SENSE PAPERS COOKERY. COMMON-SENSE PAPERS ON COOKERY. BY A. G. PAYNE. (JH ^(o\^(o CASSELL PETTER & GALPIN: London, Pai'is &r= New York. V J^ PREFACE. The present work has no pretensions to be a is simply acomplete book on Cooking, but inseries of papers (which originally appeared Cassell's Magazine) in the endeavourwhich usefulhas been, to impart a certain amount of knowledge of the Art of Cooking, by giving than would possiblerecipes at greater length be in any ordinary Cookery Book. Ordinary Books, though of the dictionaries, seldom ifgreatest utility, are, like ever read through. In the present work, which all the important elements and firstcontains learnt, inprinciples of Cooker}- necessary to be order to render ordinary works on the subject been made to sointelligible, the attempt has that the perusalmingle recipes with anecdote, Preface.6 book may be a means of entertainmentof the of useful information.as well as more for the drawing-The work is intended room than for the kitchen, for the Author believes that, among the great mass of the in this country—the class that ismiddle classes suffering incapacitymost from the 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.