French cookery for ladies / by A cordon bleu (Madame Emilie Lebour-Fawsett).
- Lebour-Fawsett, Emilie, Madame.
- Date:
- 1890
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: French cookery for ladies / by A cordon bleu (Madame Emilie Lebour-Fawsett). Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.
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![cooked in Sauterne wine]; une poularde au cresson [a roast pullet on watercresses]; des bisquets [biscuits]; de peches au noyau [a sort of peach tart with noyau]; et une creme aux cerneaux [a walnut custard]. The king was so overcome at such elaborate and perfect fare that he asked to see the c ok, but on hearing that all this was the handicraft of a woman he felt quite disgusted. However, soon recovering his serenity, he consented, at the request of his mistress, to ennoble the cook by conferring upon her the “ Cordon bleu/’ which from that time has been the recognised definition of a skilful female cook. You must not think the expression “Cordon bleu ” at all obsolete or far-fetched ; it is a term of daily occurrence in France, and when you are dining with friends and admire the fare it is quite the correct thing to say to the mistress of the house, “Madame, vouz avez un veritable cordon bleu ! ” I am ambitious enough to raise my hopes so high as to wish to make “ Cordons bleus ” of all of you, and if you continue as you have begun you will rather take by surprise whatever “ cordons bleus ” you may have in your kitchens, for it is no childish or amateur cookery into which you are being initiated, it is neither sweets nor cakes, which indeed have their special merits, but real, honest, nutritious cooking, cooking that might allow you to do without your cook if you were left in the lurch, or in an emergency supply the deficiency of an in- experienced one and enable you to send on the table nice and savoury uncommon dishes, that have the manifold advantages of being easy to make, pleasant to cook, very](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21524671_0054.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
