A Book about the Table, Volume 2Hurst and Blackett, 1875 - Gastronomy |
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Alexandre Dumas ancestors ancient appetite Art of Cookery artiste asparagus baked banquet barnacle barnacle goose beef better bird boiled bread Brillat-Savarin capon Carème cheese chef club Cogan cookery-book cooks course cuisine culinary custard dainty delicacy delight dessert dine dinner dish dressed Duke eaten eggs Elizabethan England English cuisine English table epicure excellent exclaimed famous fare fashion feast fish flavour flesh Forme of Cury fowl France French fruit gastronomic geese Gerarde Giles Rose goose gourmand gourmandise gourmet Grimod guest hare honour John Murrell kitchen lady London Lord luxurious meal meat mutton never observed old English onions oysters palate Parisian pastry peacock pears pike Prince pudding receipts repast Reynière roast Roman royal salad sallet salt saltpetre sauce says scarcely season seldom served seventeenth century shells slices Steaks stomach sugar tart taste turkey Vatel vegetables venison viands vinegar whilst whitebait wine
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Page 28 - OF old, when Scarron his companions invited, Each guest brought his dish, and the feast was united ; If our landlord supplies us with beef, and with fish, Let each guest bring himself, and he brings the best dish : Our Dean...
Page 183 - Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall: Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the King's horses and all the King's men Couldn't put Humpty Dumpty in his place again." "That last line is much too long for the poetry," she added, almost out loud, forgetting that Humpty Dumpty would hear her.
Page 105 - ... when it is perfectly formed, the shell gapeth open, and the first thing that appeareth is the foresaid lace or string : next come the legs of the bird hanging out, and, as it groweth greater, it openeth the shell by degrees, till at length it is all come forth, and hangeth onely by the bill : in short space after it commeth to full maturitie, and falleth into the sea, where it gathereth feathers, and groweth to a fowle bigger than a mallard, and lesser than a goose...
Page 177 - Three times the spoon with oil of Lucca crown, And once with vinegar, procured from town ; True flavour needs it, and your poet begs The pounded yellow of two well-boiled eggs ; Let onion atoms lurk within the bowl, And, scarce suspected, animate the whole; And lastly, on the...
Page 111 - THE HAUNCH OF VENISON. A POETICAL EPISTLE TO LORD CLARE. THANKS, my lord, for your venison, for finer or fatter Never rang'd in a forest, or smok'd in a platter. The haunch was a picture for painters to study, The fat was so white, and the lean was so ruddy...
Page 254 - T^HE PROVERBS of Solomon the son of David, King of Israel ; To know wisdom and instruction ; to perceive the words of understanding; to receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity; to give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion...
Page 28 - Hickey's a capon, and by the same rule, Magnanimous Goldsmith a gooseberry fool. At a dinner so various, at such a repast, Who'd not be a glutton, and stick to the last? Here, waiter, more wine, let me sit while I'm able, Till all my companions sink...
Page 177 - Distrust the condiment that bites so soon; But deem it not, thou man of herbs, a fault To add a double quantity of salt; Four times the spoon with oil of Lucca crown, And twice with vinegar procured from town; And lastly o'er the flavoured compound toss A magic soupcon of anchovy sauce.
Page 300 - ... houses, where all its rank and beauty, wit, eloquence, accomplishment, and agreeability may congregate ; where, above all, each young recruit of promise may be received on an apparent footing of equality, his feelings taken captive by kindness, or his vanity conciliated by flattery.
Page 149 - Shawe 6 being sent for in great haste to Claremont (it seems the Duchess had caught a violent cold by a hair of her own whisker getting up her nose and making her sneeze) — the poor Doctor, I say, having eaten a few mushrooms before he set out, was taken so ill, that he was forced to stop at Kingston ; and, being carried to the first apothecary's, prescribed a medicine for himself which immediately cured him. This catastrophe so alarmed the Duke of Newcastle, that he immediately ordered all the...