The Cook's Oracle, and Housekeeper's Manual: Containing Receipts for Cookery and Directions for Carving (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Excerpt from The Cook's Oracle, and Housekeeper's Manual: Containing Receipts for Cookery and Directions for Carving

It has been his aim to' render food acceptable to the palate, without being expensive to the purse, or offensive to the stomach; nourishing without being inflammatory, and savoury without being surfeiting; constantly endea vouring to hold the balance equal, between the agreeable and the wholesome, the epicure and the economist.

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