Transcriber’s Notes Text printed in italics has been transcribed between _underscores_, small capitals have been changed to ALL CAPITALS. More Transcriber’s Notes may be found at the end of this text. [Illustration: _To Face Title._ _Fig. 1._] [Illustration: _2_] [Illustration: _3_] [Illustration: _4_] Culinary Chemistry, EXHIBITING THE _SCIENTIFIC PRINCIPLES_ OF COOKERY, WITH CONCISE INSTRUCTIONS FOR PREPARING GOOD AND WHOLESOME PICKLES, VINEGAR, CONSERVES, FRUIT JELLIES, MARMALADES, AND VARIOUS OTHER ALIMENTARY SUBSTANCES EMPLOYED IN Domestic Economy, WITH OBSERVATIONS ON THE CHEMICAL CONSTITUTION AND NUTRITIVE QUALITIES OF DIFFERENT KINDS OF FOOD. _WITH COPPER PLATES._ [Illustration] BY FREDRICK ACCUM, Operative Chemist, Lecturer on Practical Chemistry, on Mineralogy, and on Chemistry applied to the Arts and Manufactures; Member of the Royal Irish Academy; Fellow of the Linnæan Society; Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences, and of the Royal Society of Arts Berlin, &c. &c. London: PUBLISHED BY R. ACKERMANN, 101, STRAND; 1821. INTRODUCTION. The publications which I have presented to the world, having been almost exclusively confined to subjects connected with the Fine Arts, I feel it in some measure incumbent on me to explain the cause of my having undertaken to be the publisher of this volume. It has arisen from a distressing event, in which its very ingenious, useful, and elaborate Author, happened to be involved. The work was in some degree of advancement, when the sudden and most unexpected misfortune to which I have alluded, threw him at once into a state of discouragement, that gave a check to all his exertions. I, who had known him long, and had every reason, from a most intimate acquaintance, to think well of him, both in his private as well as professional character, co-operated with many of his friends, some of whom are in the superior ranks of life, to encourage him in the renewal of his former energy--but I could succeed no further than in prevailing upon him to complete this little work on Culinary Philosophy, which promised to be highly useful in some of the leading objects of Domestic Economy. When it was ready for publication, the prejudice which had been excited against him, rendered his former publishers averse from presenting it to the public. I therefore felt myself under a kind of indispensable engagement--nor am I ashamed of it, as the work was brought to a state of publication by my interference, though out of my usual line of business, to become its publisher. I accordingly, under these circumstances, made it my own by purchasing the copy-right. Nor, from its scientific novelty, and promised utility, have I the least hesitation in presenting Mr. ACCUM’S Work to the Public. R. ACKERMANN. PREFACE. LONDON, COMPTON STREET, SOHO.