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Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine

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Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine

William Carew Hazlitt

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Royal feasts and savage pomp: Hazlitt surveys how the early Englishman actually ate. Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine tours the literature of the table, from medieval banquets through the cookery books that recorded and refined them. Food history by a bibliophile who read everything. Browse the library of dinners past.

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32 chapters

  1. 1OLD COOKERY BOOKS
  2. 2AND
  3. 3ANCIENT CUISINE
  4. 4W. CAREW HAZLITT
  5. 5POPULAR EDITION LONDON 1902
  6. 6Table of Contents
  7. 7INTRODUCTORY
  8. 8THE EARLY ENGLISHMAN AND HIS FOOD.
  9. 9ROYAL FEASTS AND SAVAGE POMP.
  10. 10COOKERY BOOKS
  11. 11PART 1.
  12. 12COOKERY BOOKS.
  13. 13PART II. SELECT EXTRACTS FROM AN EARLY RECEIPT-BOOK.
  14. 14I.—MEAT, POULTRY, ETC.
  15. 15II.—MEAT PIES AND PUDDINGS.
  16. 16III.—SWEET-PUDDINGS, PIES, ETC.
  17. 17IV.—CHEESES.
  18. 18V.—CAKES.

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