Common-sense cookery for English households : with twenty menus worked out in detail / by Colonel A. Kenney-Herbert ("Wyvern").

  • Kenney-Herbert, A. R. (Arthur Robert), 1840-1916.
Date:
1905
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Credit: Common-sense cookery for English households : with twenty menus worked out in detail / by Colonel A. Kenney-Herbert ("Wyvern"). Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    CHAPTER I. TO HOUSEKEEPERS. THE COOK—MARKETING—A CAUTION. I CANNOT do better than commence with a few words on the subject of management, for upon this the whole question of efficient and economical cookery may be said to depend. First in regard to the cook herself. If you want to be well fed, and to put nice little dinners before your friends, you must not only be prepared to take considerable personal interest in food and feeding, but you must make a friend of your cook. Common cause must be made with her for the development of better things, and the good work should be taken up pleasantly by mistress and servant as a joint enterprise. To this end it is essential that the former should acquire some practical knowledge of the art of cookery herself. The present outcry concerning the incompetence of the domestic cook points really to incompetent management. If ladies knew a good deal more than they generally do about this important branch of their household work they could mend matters to a very great extent themselves, and half the complaints would 2