The cook's oracle : containing receipts for plain cookery on the most economical plan for private families, also the art of composing the most simple, and most highly finished broths, gravies, soups, sauces, store sauces, and flavoring essences: the quantity of each article is accurately stated by weight and measure; the whole being the result of actual experiments instituted in the kitchen of a physician.

  • Kitchiner, William, 1775?-1827.
Date:
1821
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Credit: The cook's oracle : containing receipts for plain cookery on the most economical plan for private families, also the art of composing the most simple, and most highly finished broths, gravies, soups, sauces, store sauces, and flavoring essences: the quantity of each article is accurately stated by weight and measure; the whole being the result of actual experiments instituted in the kitchen of a physician. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION. Among the multitude of causes which concur to impair Health, and produce Disease, the most general is the improper quality of our Food, this, most frequently, arises from the injudicious manner in which it is prepared; — yet, strange, “ passing strange,” this, is the only one, for which a remedy has not been sought;—and few persons bestow half so much attention on the preservation of their own Health,—as they daily devote to that of their Dogs and Horses. The observations of the Guardians of Health respecting Regimen, &c. have formed no more than a Catalogue of those articles of Food, which they have considered most proper for particular Constitutions. Some Medical writers, have “ in good set terms” warned us against the pernicious effects of im- a 3