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 free companion book to Eat Dangerously is The Thorough Good Cook by George Augustus Sala. The recipes are original and unadulterated, of course!

RECIPE

 

32. Chicken Pie.

  Cover the bottom of a pie-dish with slices of raw ham or
veal ; season with salt and pepper ; over this place two young
raw chickens ; cut each into four parts ; season likewise
with pepper and salt ; add six yolks of eggs, boiled hard, and
moisten with a gill of gravy; cover the pie with a flat of
puff paste ; adorn it, egg it, and bake it in a moderate oven
for one hour and a half. If the pie is to be eaten cold,
you can mix in the gravy two leaves of dissolved gelatin.
 
 

 
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