Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 370, August 1846Various
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 370, August 1846
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2 ENTREES.
Lamb Cutlets with asparagus, peas.
Salmi of Plovers with mushrooms.
2 ROASTS.
2 Ducklings.
4 Pigeons barded with vine leaves.
4 ENTREMETS.
Orange Jelly.
Green peas.
Omelette, with fine herbs.
Gooseberry Tart with cream.
1 REMOVE.
Iced Cake with fruits.
"Nothing but light wine is drunk at the first course, but at the
second my guests are at liberty to drink wines of any other
description, intercepting them with several hors-d'oeuvres, which
are small dishes of French pickled olives and sardines, thin slices
of Bologna sausage, fillets of anchovies, ciboulettes, or very small
green onions, radishes, &c.; also a plain dressed salade a la
Francais, (for which see end of the entrees, Kitchen at Home),
fromage de brie Neufchatel, or even Windsor cheese, when it can be
procured. The coffee and dessert I usually leave to the good taste
and economy of my menagere."
We shall be exceedingly curious to hear how many hundred parties of eight
persons, upon reading this bill of fare in our pages, will, without loss
of time, congregate in order to do it substantial honour. Such clattering
of brass and brandishing of steel may strike a new government as
symptomatical or preparatory of a popular rising. We may therefore
reassure them with the information, that those who sit down with M. Soyer,
will have little thought of rising for a long time afterwards.
We have introduced the Gastronomic Regenerator to public notice in that
strain which its external appearance, its title, its scheme and its
contents, demand and justify. But we must not, even good-humouredly,
mislead those for whose use its publication is principally intended. To
all intents and purposes M. Soyer's work is strictly and most intelligibly
practical. It is as full of matter as an egg is full of meat; and the
household which would travel through its multitudinous lessons must be as
full of meat as the Regenerator is full of matter. The humblest, as well
as the wealthiest kitchen economy, is considered and instructed; nor will
the three hundred receipts at the conclusion of the volume, which are more
peculiarly applicable to the "Kitchen at Home," be, probably the portion
of the book least agreeable and valuable to the general community. For
example, just before shaking hands with him, let us listen to M. Soyer,
beginning admirably to discourse
_Of the Choosing and Roasting of Plain Joints._
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