Cakes & ale : a dissertation on banquets, interspersed with various recipes, more or less original, and anecdotes, mainly veracious / by Edward Spencer.

  • Spencer, Edward, 1844-1910.
Date:
[1913]
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Credit: Cakes & ale : a dissertation on banquets, interspersed with various recipes, more or less original, and anecdotes, mainly veracious / by Edward Spencer. 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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    CONTENTS CHAPTER I BREAKFAST Formal or informal ?—An eccentric old gentleman—The ancient Britons Breakfast in the days of Good Queen Bess A few tea statistics—Garraway’s—Something about coffee Brandy for breakfast—The evolution of the staff of life— Free Trade—The cheap loaf, and no cash to buy it Pages 1-9 CHAPTER II breakfast (continued.) Country-house life—An Englishwoman at her best—Guests’ comforts—What to eat at the first meal—A few choice recipes A noble grill-sauce—The poor outcast—Appetising dishes—Hotel “ worries ’’—The old regime and the new— No cheques”; no soles, and “whitings is hoff” A halibut steak—Skilly and oakum—Breakfast out of the