Little dinners : how to serve them with elegance and economy / by Mary Hooper.

  • Hooper, Mary, 1829-1904.
Date:
1875
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Credit: Little dinners : how to serve them with elegance and economy / by Mary Hooper. 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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    EXTRACTS EROM SOME PRESS NOTICES OF LITTLE DINNERS. Saturday Review. “ We ought not to omit the mention of several very good recipes which Mrs. Hooper vouchsafes us, e. <1. rump-steak pudding, sheep’s head Scotch fashion, devilled fowl rich plum pudding, neck of venison cooked in a V oven, how to cook whitebait’ and how to ‘ scollop ’ oysters. She has good hints about salmi of wild duck, and her caution on the deliberate preparation of the sauce for the same delicacy, roasted assures us that—given the means and the 'heart to put her knowledge in practice- s’10 undeniably knows what is good All are more or less excellent in their different ways.” Vanity Fair. “ A very excellent little hook. . . . Ought to be recommended as exceedingly use- ful, and as a capital help to any housekeeper who interests liefiself in her kitchen and her cook.” . Morning Post. “ It is only necessary to add that the very numerous recipes in the volume, which are adapted to all seasons of the year, are composed with a due regard to the prin- ciples of economy which Mrs. Hooper desires to inculcate, while they arc thoroughly appetising, and indicative of much ability on the part of the fair author.” Standard. “ The hints on wines, fish, and vegetables are all excellent, and evidently based on much practical experience. ” Echo. “ We should think this little book likely to be very useful.” Queen. “ Our writer shows us how to serve up ‘ a little dinner,’ such as a philosopher might offer a monarch—good, varied, in good taste, and cheap. Tbis is exactly what the young English wife wishes to know, and what the ordinary cookery-book does not teach her. In a word, ‘ Little Dinners ’ justifies its title, and with its title its own appearance.” John Bull. “A practical cookery-book, one really calculated to be of use to a lady and her cook in a small house, where the problem to be solved is how to provide a good dinner without being involved in an enormous outlay.” Notes and Queries. “ To read this book gives the reader an appetite Some of the receipts are excellent.” Civil Service Gazette. “ Mrs. Hooper has given us a great deal that will be found useful to all, particu- larly to {hose with whom economy is not a secondary consideration. To young house- wives her work will be found specially valuable.” Church Herald. “A thoroughly practical book We should think there are few middle- class households to whom this little book will not prove a real boon.” Church Times. “ Care has been taken to make these recipes easy, simple, aud reasonably cheap.” Liverpool Albion. “ The able authoress has a practical method of her own, which experience and aptitude enable her to render extremely useful and suggestive. The detailed in- structions fur cooking appear both simple and sound, and cover certainly a wonderful store of dishes.” Court Journal. “Containing much useful information.” Rock. “So simple and comparatively inexpensive as to be suited to the requirements of all classes.”