The Thorough Good Cook
by George Augustus Sala
recipes from 1896

A digital version of a rare antique cookbook originally published in 1896 for those who want to kick it Olde Skool !
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The Thorough Good Cook by George Augustus Sala is now in the public domain. The recipes are original and unadulterated, of course!

RECIPE

 

2. Lobster Curry.

  Pick the meat from the shell of a lobster and cut it into
small oblong pieces. Fry two onions to a golden-brown in
an ounce of butter; stir in one tablespoonful of curry-powder
or paste and half a pint of meat stock, and simmer till it
thickens ; then put in your lobster-flesh, stew the whole for
twenty Minutes, stirring occasionally ; serve boiled rice with
 it.

 
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