Breakfasts, luncheons, and ball suppers / by Major L...., author of "The Pytchley cookery book."

  • L., Major.
Date:
1887
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Credit: Breakfasts, luncheons, and ball suppers / by Major L...., author of "The Pytchley cookery book.". Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    HUNTING LUNCHEONS. In hunting countries the Author has frequently heard the remarks : What can we take with us for lunch; Which sandwich is the best; Should it be made of bread or toast; or, What is the best meat to use ? He can also hear others exclaiming : What is the man thinking of ? we don't want to eat out hunting ; We can't be bothered by carrying packages ; We hate our saddles turned into pack-saddles, etc. Wait, my friends, until the clock of some neighbouring village strikes two, and you see a friend produce a pie full of jelly, or a cutlet covered with aspic, made by the receipts given in this book. The Author's experience is that hunting makes people as hungry as other sports, unless one happens to fall into a real good forty minutes, then he admits that thirst pre- dominates over hunger; as, however, such lucky days only come perhaps half-a-dozen times in the year, hunger, as a general rule, predominates over thirst, and for this reason he has thought it advisable to give to this subject some consideration. The result of his consideration is this: first, that of all abominations sandwiches, whether made of bread or toast, are the greatest; the outsides get dry as sawdust, the insides frequently moist, the butter having melted .and the meat become sodden. Second, pies he has seen, but t^iey have generally been made of minced meat, and so close that there is no room for meat-jelly, etc., and con- sequently dry and bad. He has lived in a hunting