Cakes & ale : a memory of many meals, the whole interspersed with various recipes, more or less original, and anecdotes, mainly veracious / by Edward Spencer ("Nathanial Gubbins").

  • Edward Spencer Mott
Date:
1897
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Credit: Cakes & ale : a memory of many meals, the whole interspersed with various recipes, more or less original, and anecdotes, mainly veracious / by Edward Spencer ("Nathanial Gubbins"). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the proprietors of which journals I hereby express my kindly thanks for permission to revive them. Many of the recipes are original; some are my own ; others have been sent in by relatives, and friends of my youth ; others have been adapted for modern requirements from works of great antiquity ; whilst others again—I am nothing if not candid—have been <c conveyed ” from the works of more modern writers, who in their turn had borrowed them from the works of their ancestors. There is nothing new under the sun ; and there are but few absolute novelties which are subjected to the heat of the kitchen fire. If the style of the work be faulty, the reason— not the excuse—is that the style is innate, and not modelled upon anybody else’s style. The language I have endeavoured to make as plain, homely, and vigorous as is the food advocated. If the criticisms on foreign cookery should offend the talented chef, I have the satisfaction of know- ing that, as I have forsworn his works, he will be unable to retaliate with poison. And if the criticisms on the modern English methods of preparing food should attract the attention of the home caterer, he may possibly be induced to give his steam-chest and his gas-range a rest, and put the roast beef of Old England on his table, occasionally; though I have only the very faintest hopes that he will do so. For the monster eating- houses and mammoth hotels of to-day are for the
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