The cook's oracle : containing receipts for plain cookery on the most economical plan for private families, also the art of composing the most simple, and most highly finished broths, gravies, soups, sauces, store sauces, and flavoring essences : the quantity of each article is accurately stated by weight and measure, the whole being the result of actual experiments instituted in the kitchen of a physician

New York Public Library, William Kitchiner

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NYPL RESEARCH LIBRARIES 3 3433 07897555 8 Ej . tn I^VTHE COOK'S ORACLE; CONTAINING PLAIN COOKERYRECEIPTS FOR ON THE PLAN FOR PRIVATE FAMILIES:MOST ECONOMICAL ALSO ART OF THE MOST ANDTHE COMPOSING SIMPLE, HIGHLY FINISHEDMOST st3rotfis, Arabics, fauces, Sbtore fauces,^ottps, AND FLAVOURING ESSENCES: The each Article isQuantity of BY ANDACCURATELY STATED WEIGHT MEASURE; THE WHOLE BEING THE RESULT OF INSTITUTED IN THE KITCHEN OF A PHYSICIAN. Miscuit utile dulci." TO WHICH ARE ADDED, THIRTY NEWONE HUNDRED AND RECEIPTS, FOR PASTRY, PRESERVES, PUDDINGS, AND An and Economical ProcessEasy, Certain, for preparing PICKLES, will be inwhich a and remain for Years.By they ready Fortnight, good THE WHOLE REVISED BY THE AUTHOR OF " THE ART OF INVIGORATING LIFE BY &c."FOOD, LONDON : PRINTED FOR A. CONSTABLE & Co. EDINBURGH; AND & Co. CHEAPSIDE.HURST, ROBINSON, And sold also all Booksellers in Town andby Country* 1822.THE NEW YORK .RY LONDON: P1MNTED BY J. CREVILLE STREET.MOYE6,CONTENTS. Page vPREFACE - - - - - - 1INTRODUCTION 33CuriositiesCulinary Invitations to Dinner 38 - 49Carving -Advice to 54CooksFriendly - -Table of &c. 83Weights, RUDIMENTS OF COOKERY. 1.CHAPTER 85Boiling 92Baking 2. 95Roasting 3. 104Frying 4. 107Broiling 5. 109Vegetables 6. Fish 113 7. Broths and 117Soup 8. Gravies and Sauces 133 Made Dishes9. 141 143Receipts -Tables 463Marketing APPENDIX. . -&c.. 469Pastry, Confectionary, Preserves, &c. 508Bread, andObservations on Pies oilPuddings --~-Pickles 520 Index 527THE ART OF INVIGORATING AND PROLONGING LIFE, BY FOOD, EXERCISE,WINE, SLEEP,CLOTHES, AIR, AND PEPTIC PRECEPTS, POINTING OUT AGREEABLE AND EFFECTUAL METHODS TO PREVENT AND RELIEVE INDIGESTION, AND TO REGULATE AND STRENGTHEN THE ACTION OP THE STOMACH AND BOWELS. SuaviiLT in further in re.mode, TO WHICH IS ADDED, THE PLEASURE OF MAKING A WILL. Finis coronat opus, BY "AUTHOR OF THE COOK'STHE ORACLE," 4-c. $c. $c. THIRD ENLARGED.EDITION, LONDON : OR AND CO.PRINTED HURST, ROBINSON, ANDCONSTABLE CO. EDINBURGH.AND A. 1822.PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION. AMONG the multitude ofcauses which concur to and the mostHealth, Disease,produceimpair is the of our Food :general improper quality most arises from thethis, injudiciousfrequently, ismanner in which it prepared; yet, strange, " is the forwhichthis, one,passing strange," only a has notbeen and fewremedy sought; persons bestow halfsomuch attentionon the preservation of their own as devote toHealth, dailythey ofthat their and Horses.Dos;s o The observations of the Guardians of Health &c. have no moreformedrespecting Regimen, than a ofthose articles of whichCatalogue Food, have considered most forthey proper particular Constitutions. "Some Medical have in set terms"writers, good warned us the of im-effectsagainst pernicious a3VI PREFACE. Diet; but not has been soOne, kind,proper as to take the trouble to direct us how to pre- Foodpare properly. to write the fol-The Editor, has endeavoured beso that aslowing Receipts plainly, they may \understood in theKitchen as He trusts thtis an'rrrablr ;Kitchrn, certainly has to with its full share ofcontendGastrology those to all great impediments great improve- ments in scientific the of pursuits, prejudices the ofand theIgnorant* misrepresentations the Envious estimate theThe to andcomprehendSagacity isofimportance uncontemplated improvement Nature ha>confined to the on whomfew,very of thebestowed a sufficient of perfectiondegree the candour toSense which is to measure it; moremake a fair of it is still uncommon, report it cannot often beand the kindness to encourage itwhose most vital interestfrom those,expected of which,to the that,is, bydevelopementprevent