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

 

 
  24-. Onion Soup Maigre.

  Chop and fry in clarified butter a dozen large onions,
two heads of celery, a large carrot, and a turnip. Pulp the
roots through a tammy, and put them in two quarts of
boiling -water thickened with six ounces of butter kneaded up
with potato flour and seasoned with mace and white pepper.
The crumb of two penny rolls may be boiled in the water
instead of the potato flour ; but it must then be strained.
Add bread sippets fried, and thicken with the beaten yolks of
four eggs.

 

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