Practical home cookery / by A.G. Payne.

  • Payne, A. G. (Arthur Gay), 1840-1894.
Date:
1906
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Credit: Practical home cookery / by A.G. Payne. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    with which the breakfast begins, is handed round ; many preferring hot muffins in lieu of bread as an accompaniment. But we. must not forget the tankard, with the college arms emblazoned on its side, full of good buttery ale ; for, as many probably have already guessed, it is a college breakfast we are describing ; and Paterfamihas, when he shakes his head over the college bills, will do well to excuse a httle of the extra- vagance of youth which breaks out in the form of breakfasts rather than suppers, the latter being con- ducive too often to the former consisting simply of a red herring and a brandy-and-soda. With a dozen or more healthy young men seated round the table, free from the cares of life, indifierent to, and indeed ignorant even of, the meaning of the “ money article,” no wonder the tempting viands cooked by cunning hands rapidly disappear amid a merry conversation, in which the summum bonum of earthly happiness seems to be to row in the University Eight. But we must wait a few years. The bright- eyed youth with the fluffy whiskers, who performed such prodigies of valour in the last town and gown, has settled down into the sleek-looking country clergy- man or lawyer ; and his pretty, quiet little wife prob- ably never dreams even of the hfe he led in the boisterous, but for all that really innocent, days of his college life. The college breakfasts and the college hall have, however, had their effect, and the change from the ‘‘ college professor of cookery ” (who probably is far better off than the tutor to Mary Ann) is—well, a change. The unvarying cold boiled bacon and hot boiled eggs will, in spite of the bright silver tea-pot, the butter-dish with the silver cow on the top, the lavish display of butter-knives (all wedding presents, of course) after a time pall upon the strongest appetite ; but, unfortunately, if Mary Ann breaks down in one