Cheap recipes for fish cookery / prepared by Mrs. Charles Clarke.

  • Clarke, Edith Nicolls, 1844-
Date:
1883
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Cheap recipes for fish cookery / prepared by Mrs. Charles Clarke. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    THE OBJFXT AND WORK OF THE NATIONAL TRAINING SCHOOL FOR COOKERY, With Summary of Rules, Fees, etc. The establishment of the National Training School for Cookery is due to Her Majesty's Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851, at the suggestion of the late Sir Henry Cole, who devoted much time and labour to the organisation of the Institution. An International Exhibition of the industries and products connected with Food took place in 1873, and the Commissioners resolved that Lectures illus- trating Cookery should be given in connection therewith. These Lectures were given by Mr. Buckmaster, with prac- tical demonstrations by a staff of cooks, and attracted so much public attention that, in the following year, a General Committee was formed and subscriptions raised for starting a National Training School for Cookery. The Com- missioners agreed to grant the use of a building rent free, the Duke of Westminster consented to act as President, and the Hon. E. F. Leveson-Gower, M.P., accepted the duties of Chairman of the Executive Committee of Management. The National Training School for Cookery was esta- blished to carry out the following objects :—
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