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

 

  
 
  Orange Tart.
  Line a shallow tart dish with a good puff paste, and
upon it pour the following mixture :-Take four Seville
oranges, and double their weight of sugar; squeeze all the
juice from the pulp, then boil the oranges till tender ;
then pound them into a paste, adding the sugar, a tea-
spoonful of butter, the juice from the oranges, and a few
drops of essence of lemon ; bake till the crust is done, and
then cover with custard or cream.
 
 

 
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