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TITLE: Indian Domestic Economy and Receipt with Hindustanee Romanized Names
SUB TITLE: Comprising numerous directions for plain wholesome cookery, both oriental and English; with much miscellaneousmatter, answering all general purposes of references, connected with household affairs likely to be immediately required by families, messes, and private individuals residing at the presidencies or at out-stations
AUTHOR: R Riddell
PLACE: Calcutta
PUBLISHER: Thacker Spink And Company
YEAR: 1871
NO.OF PAGES: ix + 633 Pages
BINDING: Contemporary binding with 4 raised bands on the spine
SIZE: 19 x 14 x 4.5 cm
b)
TITLE: Culinary Jottings for Madras
SUB TITLE: A treatise in 30 Chapters on Reformed Cookery for Anglo Indian Exiles, based upon Modern English, and continental principles, with thirty menus for little dinners worked out in detail, and an essay on our kitchens in India
AUTHOR: Colonel Arthur Robert Kenney-Herbert "Wyven"
PLACE: Madras
PUBLISHER: Higginbothams And Company
YEAR: 1883
NO.OF PAGES: 551 Pages
BINDING: Nicely rebound in half calf, marbled boards
SIZE: 19.8 x 12.9 cm
'Wyvern' was a colonel in the Indian Army, long resident in Madras, who whiled away his spare time writing about cookery in the Madras Athenaeum and Daily News. The upshot of his interesting hobby was this book, which set out to instruct the memsahibs of the day in the best ways to cope with Indian kitchen staff and cooking arrangements and in how to produce decent English and French food with local ingredients and imported supplies. It was first published in Madras in 1878 and went through several editions in India.
It is a fascinating hybrid, for it tells the modern reader a great deal about Anglo-Indian cookery and gives a matchless description of Victorian haute cuisine. There is possibly no better introduction to good cookery than this book. His subsequent books, mostnotably Commonsense Cookery, were also models of their type, though in many respects never improved on his first attempt published here.
The chapters cover every aspect of the kitchen, from the cook and his management, the store-room, and thebatterie de cuisine, to all dishes suitable for dainty dining, as well as excellent chapters such as "Our Curries", "Camp Cookery" and "Our Kitchens in India". There are extensive model menus
for parties of six or eight people, or for "Little Home Dinners".
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