Culina famulatrix medicinæ, or, Receipts in modern cookery; with a medical commentary / by A. Hunter.

  • Alexander Hunter
Date:
1810
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Credit: Culina famulatrix medicinæ, or, Receipts in modern cookery; with a medical commentary / by A. Hunter. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The wholesome practice of Dietetics is now so much neglected by the faculty, that few medical men can tell the difference between a Gofer and a Pancake. And as the Culinary Practice of the divine Hippocrates is likely soon to give way to a system of a different nature, under the agency of tobacco and foxglove, henbane and hemlock, arsenic, and other poisons, I have only to lament an occasion that must give my friend Archreus much uneasiness. In the warmth of resentment, he calls the system “ Theoretical Folly j” a term to which I shall not object, till a better name can be found for it. Now is the time for Coroners to make their fortunes. As a subordinate consideration to my design in this publication, I had in view the benefit that would arise to some future member of the Society of Antiquaries, who may be disposed to employ his time in tracing the progress of Cookery from the time of Apicius to his own day. All the books of Cookery that I have perused, seem to be greatly deficient in the directions given for preparing the respective Dishes. A penny- worth of thisf and a pinch of that, are vague ex-
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