Cyclopædia of foods, condiments and beverages : the greatest delicacies and common necessaries

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CROSSE & BLACKWELL’S

MALT VINEGAR,

Preface

My attention having for some time been directed to the classification of Food-products, simple and luxurious, their description and utilisation, it has been suggested that such a work as the present would he generally welcomed. Encouraged and assisted by scientific collaborators, and, in some instances, by celebrated chefs de cuisine, I have compiled this little volume, which, it is hoped, will be of some practical value and interest to ladies superintending their housekeeping, superior hotel-keepers, or their managers, and to all who concern themselves with the delicacies and necessaries that find their way to the table. In a word, this little book is intended to show the reader at a glance precisely what he wishes to know on the subject, and to give him in a succinct form an amount of information which would otherwise cost him much time and labour to obtain. Moreover, the names of new delicacies and foods are here inserted, and the articles described; whilst the foreign terms which appear on menus are translated or explained. Every subject referring to the table is judiciously treated, and all technicalities made intelligible ; in fact, it may confidently be said to all who wish for information upon the subject of foods, condiments and beverages, “ Look within and you will find it.”

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