The Pleasures of the Table: An Account of Gastronomy from Ancient Days to Present Times. With a History of Its Literature, Schools, and Most Distinguished Artists; Together With Some Special Recipes, and Views Concerning the Aesthetics of Dinners and Dinner-givingEllwanger, George H. (George Herman)
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The Pleasures of the Table: An Account of Gastronomy from Ancient Days to Present Times. With a History of Its Literature, Schools, and Most Distinguished Artists; Together With Some Special Recipes, and Views Concerning the Aesthetics of Dinners and Dinner-giving
Ellwanger, George H. (George Herman)
Gastronomy
Recipes
A Blue-violet Salad ("The Story of My House"), 426
"A Bride's Pie" (Mrs. Glasse), 110
A good brown gravy (Mrs. Glasse), 109
A liver-pudding boiled (Mrs. Glasse), 109
Bakewell pudding, 276
Bouillon, Dumas' mode of preparing, 224
Brook trout (Savarin), 179;
(Baron Brisse's formulas), 180
Cabbage, Apicius' recipes for, 29
Cèpes (Vuillemot's recipe for), 405
Chicken, Artimidor's recipe for, 18
Cock ale, Markham's formula for, 98
"Dish of Roses" (the). Laurentius' recipe for, 18
Flounder-souchy (Kitchener), 327
Gigot de mouton à la Richelieu (St. Ange), 380
Guisado, the Spanish, 51
How to collar a pig (Mrs. Smith), 109
How to roast a pig (Mrs. Glasse), 110
Kalter Aufschnitt, 169
Mutton Cutlets (Mrs. Walter Ellis), 276
Partridge aux choux (Baron Brisse), 371
Pheasant à la Sainte-Alliance (Savarin), 193
Potage aux choux (Dumas), 224
Quail à la financière (Gouffé), 226
Roast goose _à l'allemande_, 157
Sack-posset (Sir Fleetwood Fletcher), 439
Sauce for venison, mutton, and game (Francatelli), 208;
for green geese and ducklings, 278;
à la Schönberg (Her Gracious Serenity), 352
Spare-rib (Charles Lamb's new formula), 242
"The Curé's Omelette" (Savarin), 302
The hunter's sandwich, 441
Ranhofer (Charles), referred to, 353
Récamier (Mme.), referred to, 300
Reed-birds, 359, 361
Rembrandt, referred to, 6
Restaurants, first Parisian, 64, 66;
excessive charges of Parisian, 140, 220, 342;
Bignon, referred to, 219;
American, 250;
advantage of dining at, 339;
Glatigny's sonnet on, 341;
Bignon's, 341-343;
Trois Frères Provençeaux, referred to, 258;
a dinner at, in 1860, 297;
English, 270, 275, 338.
_Vide_ also "Cafés," and specific references
Retz (Cardinal de), referred to, 171
Réveillé-Parise (Dr.), referred to, 339
Richelieu (Cardinal de), 54, 302, 380;
(Maréchal, Duc de), 303, 348
Riquette, referred to, 202
Ristori (Mme.), referred to, 220
Roasting, as defined by the Marquis de Cussy, 120
Robert, referred to, 6, 69, 194, 201, 202
Rocher de Cancale (restaurant of), 52, 115, 117, 118, 187, 221;
a celebrated menu of, 140-142
Rohan (Cardinal), referred to, 150
Romans, luxury of the ancient, 25 _et seq._;
meals of the ancient, 27
Ronsard, referred to, 52;
quoted, 79
Roques (Joseph), 408
"Royal Cookery" (Patrick Lamb's), 102
Rubens, referred to, 6, 245
Ruffs and reeves, 335
Ruysdael, referred to, 6
Sack-posset, 96
St. Ange, gastronomic homily of, 378-382
Ste. Beuve, quoted, 381
Saint-Simon, quoted, 55
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