Menus made easy : or how to order dinner and give the dishes their French names

Nancy Lake

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MEAT AND FISH Etc. COOKERY FOR THE SICK.PIES,
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the World.MENUS MADE EASYMENUS MADE EASY
OR
HOW TO ORDER DINNER AND GIVE
THE DISHES THEIR FRENCH NAMES
BY
NANCY LAKE
i
i" 'AUTHOR OF DAILY DINNERS
REVISED AND EXTENDED EDITION
(the tyventy-fourth)
LONDON
FREDERICK WARNE AND CO.
AND NEW YORK
1913».Un*»**y
PREFACE
One of the chief aims of the Art of isCookery variety.
ofIn the so a number dishes arefollowing pages large
that can be inno difficulty experienced attaininggiven
that That this is so in a evidencedis, measure,object.
the fact that so éditions hâve beenby many already
called for.
In the édition the work has been divided intoprésent
sections under its in eachand section thechapters,
dishes hâve been in fororder,arranged alphabetical
convenience of référence.greater
dishes hâve been while others that hâveMany added,
be inceased to demand hâve been struck out.
There will be infound considérable additions the
both sweet and in the treatment ofentremets, savoury,
various and in iced dishes novv so much infruits,
request.
The increased facilities for due to theice-making,
number of machines now obtain-inexpensive freezing
hâve made such dishes much more thanable, gênerai
were a few back. A of them is nowthey years variety
and in addition to the sweet those made withgiven, ices,
etc.fish, vegetables, cheese,
The author has adhered to her of notprinciple
dishes that take their name from theincluding merely
298257vi PREFACE
mould in which are such as Bclgrave,they prepared,
Trois etc.Monaco, Frères, Exception must, however,
made in the case of some that hâve secured forbe
that isthemselves a in the world likelyposition culinary
which are calledto survive when the moulds after they
of thèse arehâve fallen into disuse. Examplesmay
shown in and Timbales.Bombes, Plombières,
theirNeither are such dishes enumerated as owe
a the visit of somename to such asinterest,passing
a statesman or orforeign royalty, prominent gênerai,
some social event or cérémonial. Thèse dishes hâve no
fromoften differculinary importance. They hardly
those well hâveknown. Such interest asalready they
would be and even were the eventpurely historical,
worth the of is notrecording, study history profitably
in the kitchen !pursued
The toof décoration of dishes will be foundsubject
be touched in the Introduction. One additionalupon
is now ofïered. The of flowers orsuggestion garnish
ferns has been introduced. This the aulhoroccasionally
desires to theto Not ofstrongly deprecate. speak
of or in such apossibility spiders earwigs, position
flowers become i.e. out ofweeds,technically plants
are not intended to be andplace. They eaten,certainly
a non-edible is of the waxendécoration suggestive
and such abominations that hâve nowfigures happily
died out.
It is that the will render thisaltérations madehoped
little book more useful to those while desirous ofwho,
a well-ordered hâve little time to fromcuisine, yet spare
more and more for theimportant profitable occupations,
"
considération of the theof table."pleasures