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The accomplisht cook

Robert May

520 pages~10 hr 22 min read62 chapters$4.99
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Robert May cooked for English nobility through civil war and restoration, and his 1660 masterwork shows a lost world of banquet cookery: pastry castles, elaborate roasts, and dishes dedicated to lords by name. The most ambitious English cookbook of its century, from a chef trained in France. Seventeenth century magnificence, course by course. Feast like a cavalier.

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62 chapters

  1. 1Accomplisht Cook,
  2. 2ART MYSTERY
  3. 3COOKERY.
  4. 4To the Right Honourable my Lord Montague, My Lord Lumley, and my Lord Dormer; and to the Right worshipful Sir Kenelme Digby, so well known to this Nation for their Admired Hospitalities.
  5. 5To the Reader of (my very loving Friend) Mr. Robert May his incomparable Book of Cookery.
  6. 6The most Exact, or A-la-mode Ways of Carving and Sewing.
  7. 7Directions for the order of carving Fowl.
  8. 8The Sewing of Fish.
  9. 9Bills of FARE for every Season in the Year; also how to set forth the MEAT in order for that Service, as it was used before Hospitality left this Nation.
  10. 10Page Numbering
  11. 11Spelling
  12. 12Catchwords
  13. 13CONTENTS
  14. 14Contents
  15. 15the ACCOMPLISHT COOK, or, The whole Art and Mystery of COOKERY, fitted for all Degrees and Qualities.
  16. 16Section I. Perfect Directions for the A-la-mode Ways of dressing all manner of Boyled Meats, with their several sauces, c.
  17. 17Barley Broth.
  18. 18Stewed Broth.

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