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CAKES AND ALE
CAKES & ALE
A DISSERTATION ON BANQUETS
EDWARD SPENCER
STANLEY PAUL & CO. 31, Essex Street, Strand, W.C.
First printed April 1897 Reprinted May 1897 Cheap Edition February 1900 Reprinted 1913
PREFACE
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I
BREAKFAST
Wardon Pie
Tea,
The Coffee-Tree,
The Staff of Life[1]
Free Trade
CHAPTER II
BREAKFAST (continued)
Eggs and Bacon.
Allowable Breakfast Dishes
Gubbins Sauce
A Large Peach.
Calcutta Jumble.
To cook Rice for Curry, etc.
Asparagus with Eggs.
An Hotel Breakfast.
“No Cheques Accepted”
Halibut Steak,
The Hotel Parish
CHAPTER III
BREAKFAST (continued)
The Fin’an Haddie,
A Salmon Steak
Off to Gold-land!
A Mediterranean Breakfast
Chota Hazri
CHAPTER IV
LUNCHEON
Birch’s,
Turtle Soup
“The Ship and Turtle,”
Cheshire Cheese Pudding.
“Cheshire Cheese.”
Ye Pudding,
Snipe Pudding.
Lancashire Hot-Pot
CHAPTER V
LUNCHEON (continued)
Roast Loin of Pork,
Shepherd’s Pie,
Plover Pudding
Such Larks!
Jugged Duck with Oysters.
A Woodcock Pie
Hunting Luncheons
Yorkshire Pie.
Irish Stew
Race-course Luncheons
Scotch Broth,
Hotch Potch.
Angel’s Pie.
Pigeon Pie
Suffolk Pride.
Goose Pie.
CHAPTER VI
DINNER
Haggis
CHAPTER VII
DINNER (continued)
CHAPTER VIII
DINNER (continued)
Royalty
Mirepoix
Pré Salé
Li Hung Chang
Chinaman’s Evening Repast
The Englishman in China
Bernardin Salmi.
A Salmi of Wild Duck
The Jesuits
Pulled Turkey
Coloured Help
Clam Chowder
Canvass-back Duck,
New York City
CHAPTER IX
DINNER (continued)
City Dinners
Baksheesh,
Dinner Afloat.
Ideal Dinner
Liver of a Cod.
At the Mess-Table
Peter the Great
Napoleon the Great,
Her Majesty
Duke of Wellington
How the Poor Live.
The Kent Road Cookery.
Doctor Nansen’s Banquet
Prison Fare.
CHAPTER X
VEGETABLES
Choufleur aû Gratin.
Partridge Stewed with Cabbage, etc.
Crécy Soup.
CHAPTER XI
VEGETABLES (continued)
Tomato
Tomate au Gratin:
Turnip
Spinach
Onion.
Garlic
Brinjal
Vegetarian Banquet.
CHAPTER XII
CURRIES
Parsee Curry.
What to Curry.
Dry Curry.
Rice for Curry
CHAPTER XIII
SALADS
French Salad,
Lobster Salad
Potato Salad.
Tomato Salad.
Celery Salad.
A Gentleman Salad Maker.
A Memorable Salad
CHAPTER XIV
SALADS AND CONDIMENTS
Roman Salad
Italian Salad.
Russian Salad.
Anchovy Salad.
Fruit Salad.
Orange Salad.
Orange Sauce.
Chutnine.
Raw Chutnee
Horse-radish Sauce.
Celery Sauce,
Sauce for Carp.
Christopher North’s Sauce.
Sauce for Hare.
Gooseberry Sauce,
Sauce Tartare,
Currant Sauce:
Sauce for the Goose
Sambal,
CHAPTER XV
SUPPER
Oysters in their own Juice.
Scalloped Oysters
Oyster Stew
Ball Suppers.
Tripe
How to Cook Tripe.
CHAPTER XVI
SUPPER (continued)
Evans’s.
Buck Rarebit.
Lamb’s Head and Mince.
Parlour Cookery.
Grilled Bones
Kidney Dumpling.
CHAPTER XVII
“CAMPING OUT”
Pepper-pot
A Rajah’s
CHAPTER XVIII
COMPOUND DRINKS
Milk Punch.
Very best Materials
Cambridge Milk Punch.
Oxford Punch.
Bischoff.
Bishop.
Halo Punch.
Glasgow Punch.
Ale Punch.
Barbadoes Punch.
Curaçoa Punch.
Grassot Punch.
Regent Punch.
Whisky Toddy.
Ale-flip.
Egg-flip.
A Peg?
John Collins
CHAPTER XIX
CUPS AND CORDIALS
Cider Cup.
Champagne Cup
Chablis Cup.
Balaclava Cup.
Crimean Cup.
Orgeat.
Ascot Cup.
Champagne and Guinness’ Stout
Rich Man’s Shandy Gaff,
Ale Cup.
Moselle Cup.
Sherry Cobbler
Champagne Cobbler.
Home Ruler.
Cordials.
Cherry Brandy.
Sloe Gin.
Apricot Brandy.
Highland Cordial.
Bitters.
Ginger Brandy.
“Jumping Powder”
Orange Brandy
Mandragora.
CHAPTER XX
THE DAYLIGHT DRINK
Brandy Cocktail.
Champagne Cocktail.
Bengal Cocktail.
Milford Cocktail.
Manhattan Cocktail.
Yum Yum Cocktail.
Gin Cocktail.
Newport Cocktail.
Saratoga Cocktail.
Whisky Cocktail.
Bosom Caresser.
A Nicobine,
West Indies,
Bull’s Milk.
Fairy Kiss.
Flash of Lightning.
Flip Flap.
Maiden’s Blush.
Athole Brose
Tiger’s Milk.
Wyndham.
Happy Eliza.
Mint Julep.
Possets.
Brandy Sour.
Blue Blazer.
Cassis.
Sligo Slop.
Do not drink between Meals!
CHAPTER XXI
GASTRONOMY IN FICTION AND DRAMA
Charles Dickens
CHAPTER XXII
RESTORATIVES
Doctor
Surgeon-Major,
A Scorcher
Prairie Oyster.
Worcester Oyster
Brazil Relish.
Port-flip
Anchovy Toast.
St. Mark’s Pick-me-up.
Overtrained
Hot-pickle Sandwich
Devilled Biscuit
Working-Man’s Livener,
Bovril
Swizzle,
Straight Talks.
INDEX
THE END
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