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

 

  
  
  35. White Haricot Beans, Brittany Fashion (a la Bretonne).
  Take one quart of fresh-shelled beans, have also two
quarts of boiling water, in which you have placed two ounces
of butter and a little salt ; put in your beans and boil
them about half an hour or till tender, drain quite dry upon
a sieve, then put them into another stew-pan with a quarter
of a pound of butter and a little pepper and salt, " toss " them.
a few minutes over the fire, and when very hot turn them
out upon your dish, and serve.
 
 

 
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