Receipts in modern cookery. With a medical commentary / By A. Hunter.

  • Alexander Hunter
Date:
1820
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Credit: Receipts in modern cookery. With a medical commentary / By A. Hunter. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of their opinion: on the contrary, I consider myself as having contributed to the advancement of my profession by a due mixture of the utile and dulce. I have not the vanity to suppose that every dish in this small volume will stand the criticism of professed cooks; but in justification of my selection, I beg leave to observe, that most of the receipts have been transmitted to me from persons of established reputation in the culinary art. But before I dismiss this part of the subject that so immediately concerns myself, I beg leave to observe, that however well the dishes may be imagined, they must not be expected to suit every palate; for as Horace says, ‘ I have three guests invited to a feast. And all appear to have a different taste. What shall I give them ? W7hat shall I refuse ? What one dislikes, the other two shall choose : And e’en the very dish you like the best. Is acid, or insipid to the rest.’ Ep. 2. Throughout the whole of this collection I have steadily adhered to the opinion of Arch reus, for whom I entertain the greatest veneration, on account of his impartiality and judgment in all matters that concern the stomach: an organ.