A PLAIN COOKERY BOOK FOR THE WORKING CLASSES - 1852 - INTRODUCTION
- MY object in writing this little book is to show you how you may
prepare and cook your daily food, so as to obtain from it the
greatest amount of nourishment at the leash possible expense and
thus, by skill and economy, add, at the same time, to your comfort
and to y o u com arativelsyle nder means. The Recipes which it
contains will afford su5cient variety, from the simple every-day
fare to more tasty dishes for the birthday, Christmas-day, or other
festive occasions. In order to carry out my instructions properly,
a few utensils will be necessary. Industry, good health, and
constant employment, have, in n anyin - sla ces, I trust, enabled
those whom I now address to lay by a little suin of money. A
porfiion of bhis will be well speut in the purchase of the
following articles -A coolring-stove, with an oven at the side, or
placed under the grate, which should be so plau ed as to admit of
the fire bei g open or closed at will by this col trivance much
heat and fuel are economized there should also be a boiler at the b
lclr of the grate. By this means you would have hot water always
ready at hand, the advantage of which is COE siderable. Such poor
mens cooking-stoves exist, on a large scale, in all modern-built
lodging-houseu. Also, a three-gallon iron pot with a lid to it, a
one-gallon saucepan, a two-quart ditto, a frying-pan, a gridiron,
and s strong tin baking-dish. Here is a list of the cost prices at
which the above-named articles, as well as a few others equally
necessary, may be obtained of all ironmongers -A cooking-stove, 2
ft. 6 in. wide, with oven only . . . . . Ditto, with oven and
boiler . . A three-gallonoval boiling pot . . A one-gallon tin
saucepan, and lid . A two-quart ditto . . . a A potato steamer . .
. h oval frying-pan, from . . . A gridiron, from . . . . A copper
for washing or brewing, twelve gallons . . . . A mash-tub, from . .
. Two cooling-tubs or an old wine or beer cask cut in halves, would
be cheaper, and answer the same pur pose, each 6s. . . . . To those
of my readers who, from sickness or other hindrance, have not money
in store, I would say, strive to lay by a little of your weekly
wages to purchase these things, that your families may be well fed,
and your homes made comfortable. And now a few words on baking your
own bread. I assure you if you would adopt this excellent practice,
you would not only effect a great saving in your expenditure, but
you would also insure a more substantial and wholesome kind of food
it would be free from potato, rice, bean or pea flour, and alum,
all of which substances are objectionable in the composition of
bread. The only utensil required for bread-making would be a tub,
or trough, capable of working a bushel or two of flour. This tub
would be usefulin brewing, for which you will find in this book
plain and e a g directions. I have pointed out the necessity of
procuring these articles for cooking purposes, and with the
injunction to use great care in keeping them thoroughly clean, I
wiil at once proceed to show you their value in a course of
practical and economical cool ery, the soundness and plainness of
which I sincerely hope you will all be enabled to test in your own
homes. COOKERY BOOK, No. 1. BOILED BE EF. This is an economical
dinner, especially where there are many mouths to feed...
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