Cassell's vegetarian cookery : a manual of cheap and wholesome diet / by A.G. Payne.

  • Arthur Gay Payne
Date:
1899
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Credit: Cassell's vegetarian cookery : a manual of cheap and wholesome diet / by A.G. Payne. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    become vegetarians. As we have said, the great motive that induces many to give vegetarianism a trial is economy; and if persons would once get rid of the idea that they risk their health by making a trial, much would be done to advance the cause. Another great reason for persons hesitating to make a trial is the revolution it would create in their households. Here again we are beset by difficulties, and these difficulties can only disappear gradually, after long years of patience. Wo believe the progress towards vegetarianism must of necessity bo a very slow one. No large West End tradesman could pos- sibly insist upon his whole establishment becoming vegetarians because he becomes one himself. We believe and hope that the present work will benefit those who are undergoing a slow but gradual change in their mode of living. This is easiest in small households, where no servants are kept at all, where the mistress is both cook and mother. It is in such house- holds that the change is possible, and very often most de- sirable. In many cases trial will be made gradually. The great difficulty to contend with is prejudice, or, rather, we may say, habit. There are many housekeepers who feel that their bill of fare would instantly become extremely limited were they to adopt vegetarian ideas. There are few better dinners —especially for children—than a good basin of soup, with plenty of bread; yet, as a rule, there are few housekeepers who would know how to make vegetarian soup at all. In our present work we have given a list of sixty-four soups. At any rate, here is no lack of variety, as small housekeepers in this country are not famed for their knowledge of soup making, even with gravy-beef at their disposal. On looking down this list it will be observed that in many cases cream—or, at any rate, milk—is recommended. We can well imagine the housekeeper exclaiming, I don't call this economy. This is one point about which we consider a few words of explanation necessary. We will suppose a family of eight, who have been accustomed to live in the
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