: Cakes & Ale A Dissertation on Banquets Interspersed with Various Recipes More or Less Original and anecdotes mainly veracious by Spencer Edward - Gastronomy; Cooking English; Entertaining; Dinners and dining

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BREAKFAST

Formal or informal?--An eccentric old gentleman--The ancient Britons--Breakfast in the days of Good Queen Bess--A few tea statistics--Garraway's--Something about coffee--Brandy for breakfast--The evolution of the staff of life--Free Trade--The cheap loaf, and no cash to buy it Pages 1-9

BREAKFAST

Country-house life--An Englishwoman at her best--Guests' comforts--What to eat at the first meal--A few choice recipes--A noble grill-sauce--The poor outcast--Appetising dishes--Hotel "worries"--The old regime and the new--"No cheques"; no soles, and "whitings is hoff"--A halibut steak--Skilly and oakum--Breakfast out of the rates 10-21

BREAKFAST

LUNCHEON

Why lunch?--Sir Henry Thompson on overdoing it--The children's dinner--City lunches--"Ye Olde Cheshyre Cheese"--Doctor Johnson--Ye pudding--A great fall in food--A snipe pudding--Skirt, not rump steak--Lancashire hot-pot--A Cape "brady" 34-43

LUNCHEON

Shooting luncheons--Cold tea and a crust--Clear turtle--Such larks!--Jugged duck and oysters--Woodcock pie--Hunting luncheons--Pie crusts--The true Yorkshire pie--Race-course luncheons--Suggestions to caterers--The "Jolly Sandboys" stew--Various recipes--A race-course sandwich--Angels' pie--"Suffolk pride"--Devilled larks--A light lunch in the Himalayas 44-58

DINNER

DINNER

Imitation--Dear Lady Thistlebrain--Try it on the dog--Criminality of the English caterer--The stove, the stink, the steamer--Roasting v. baking--False economy--Dirty ovens--Frills and fingers--Time over dinner--A long-winded Bishop--Corned beef 73-81

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