Cassell's Vegetarian Cookery - A Manual of Cheap and Wholesome Diet by A. G. Payne
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branches. It is a dictionary which should be in every household, and
studied by every woman who recognises her true mission in the world."--_Christian World_. "CASSELL'S DICTIONARY OF COOKERY is not only full of solid and valuable information as to the best method of preparing food in an endless variety of forms, but it will enable a housekeeper to grasp principles on which food may be cooked to the greatest perfection. It supplies the reason why one method is right and another wrong. An estimate of the cost of each recipe is given, which is valuable information. The recipes themselves are given in terms intelligible to the meanest capacity."--_Athenaeum_. "CASSELL'S DICTIONARY OF COOKERY contains about 9,000 recipes, and is preceded by a treatise on the Principles of Culinary Art and Table Management, which will simply be found invaluable not only by cooks, as those most interested in such instructions, but by every mistress of a household, large or small.... The woodcuts dispersed through the pages not only illustrate some of the various species of fish, game, fruit, vegetables, and herbs to which the recipes refer, but serve to make the directions for carving more intelligible, while the coloured plates represent appetising dishes elaborately garnished, or fruit tastefully arranged, with several less inviting pictures of 'bad and good joints of meat' contrasted with each other side by side."--_Morning Post_. "The best Cookery book extant. We know of no equal, either in the arrangement of its contents, the number of its recipes, or the elegance of its illustrations."--_York Herald_. "Being complete, it tells us how to dress a table for the smallest dinner, but what I value more in it is that it reminds us of the simplest and |
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