The chemistry of cookery / by W. Mathieu Williams.

  • Williams, W. Mathieu (William Mathieu), 1820-1892.
Date:
1906
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Credit: The chemistry of cookery / by W. Mathieu Williams. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHEMISTRY OF ^COOKERY. CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY. The philosopher who first perceived and announced the fact that all the physical doings of man consist simply in changing the places of things, made a very profound generalisation, and one that is worthy of more serious consideration than it has received. All our handicraft, however great may be the skill employed, amounts to no more than this. The miner moves the ore and the fuel from their subterranean resting-places, then they are moved into the furnace, and by anodier moving of combustibles the working of the furnace is started ; then the metals are moved to the foundries and forges, then under hammers, or squeezers, or into melting-pots, and thence to moulds. The work- man shapes the bars, or plates, or castings by removing a part of their substance, and by more and more movings of material produces the engine, which docs its work when fuel and water arc moved into its fireplace and boiler. dhe statue is within the rough block of marble ; the