French cookery for ladies / by A cordon bleu (Madame Emilie Lebour-Fawsett).

  • Lebour-Fawsett, Emilie, Madame.
Date:
1890
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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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    with them whilst cooking a small silver spoon, and if it turns black we know there is something wrong, and we do not eat them. Some may ask, “But can mushrooms ever be poisonous ? ” Of course, the real, good mush- rooms are not poisonous when they are fresh, but the moment they turn black underneath they cease to be cood, and the rules in France about mushrooms are O 7 most stringent. The following are some of them:—Evety mushroom sent for sale in Paris must be sent first to the Halles, that is, the great Paris market, such as you have not here, to be examined by efficient officials. No mushroom kept one day can be exhibited for sale the next day. No hawker is allowed to sell mushrooms in the streets. Any gardener or vegetable grower having gone through a police-court for having exhibited inferior mushrooms will be turned out for ever from the Halles. Surely, if it has been deemed necessary to enact such laws, it is evident there are strong causes to justify them. Fond as I am of mushrooms, it is always in trembling that I cat them ; and this is what I read yesterday in Alexandre Duma > “ Grand Dictionary of Cookery,” after his numerous and elaborate receipts for cooking mushrooms : — “ Avis.—J’avoue quo rien ne m’effraie plus que l’apparition de champignons sur unc table, surtout lorsque je me trouve par hasard dans une petite ville de province.”
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