the thorough good cook - recipe

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

4. Salad of Salmon.
Put a glass of white wine into a stew-pan with some
thin slices of onion, carrots, mushrooms, a bunch of mixed
herbs, salt, pepper, and spice ; scale the salmon, cut the
slices as thin as a crown piece, and set them round the dish ;
garnish with a string of lettuce hearts, hard-boiled eggs;
slices of boiled carrots and gherkins, slices of anchovy
and capers. Make a cold ravigote (p. 342), and pour it
over the whole.

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