The French cook; a system of fashionable, practical, and economical cookery, adapted to the use of English families / [Louis Eustache Ude].

  • Ude, Louis Eustache
Date:
1841
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Credit: The French cook; a system of fashionable, practical, and economical cookery, adapted to the use of English families / [Louis Eustache Ude]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ONE WORD ON THIS NEW EDITION. - WueEn the first edition of this work was published I was not capable of making the necessary corrections in the proof- sheets as they came from the printer’s hands; and the translator (a major in the army), although well instructed in his own profession, knew little of mine. The book there- fore, on its appearance, obtained the reputation due to the author’s name, but with the deplorable errors of the translator. Since that time I could never fancy the repe- rusal of my production; but being by chance apprised of the inaccuracy of the translation, which caused a degree of ridicule to attach to the work, I, for the sake of my own reputation, offered to revise it, and confess was much ashamed at finding that this most useful work had been so mutilated that scarcely anything in it was intelli- gible. I have with great care corrected the errors in language and explanation. I entreat the reader to fami- liarise himself with the technical names, which will shorten explanation and assist him in making his bill of fare, which, by a good cook, either F'rench or English, is always written in French. The practitioner must not disdain to learn the words indispensable to his trade. Every word of a language has its origin, and only be- comes national through habit and time. It is a great fault in learners that they never study this work, but merely refer to it when they have occasion to make use
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