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 !


Hollander and Hechsher, publishers of the Eat Dangerously and New Food cookbooks, have a commitment to issue expired-copyright books in the public domain.

The Thorough Good Cook by George Augustus Sala is now in the public domain. The recipes are original and unadulterated, of course!

RECIPE

 

 
  28. Yet Another Soup Maigre.

  Brown half a pound of butter in a saucepan, and stew
it for a quarter of an hour with the following ingredients,
all washed clean and chopped small :-Four cabbage-lettuces
two handfuls of spinach, the same of chervil, one handful
of white beet-leaves, and one of sorrel, three carrots scraped
down, some pepper and salt ; add five pints of boiling -water
and a large slice of the crumb of bread cut thin and dried
before the fire. Stew gently for two o hours, and a little
before serving thicken with the beaten yolks of three eggs,
and half a pint of cream or good milk. A pint of green peas
and the tops of asparagus may be added.
 
 

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Click here to return to the table of contents of The Thorough Good Cook.

 

 

 

HOME

Return home to Eat Dangerously Central! Many more cookbooks and websites await your clicks!

AVAILABLE NOW

 

©2005 Hollander and Hechsher. All Rights Reserved.