Soyer - The gastronomic regenerator : a simplified and entirely new system of cookery, with nearly two thousand practical receipts suited to the income of all classes

A
SIMPLIFIED AND ENTIRELY NEW
SYSTEM OF COOKERY,
WITH NEARLY
TWO THOUSAND PRACTICAL RECEIPTS
SUITED TO THE INCOME OF ALL CLASSES.
ILLUSTRATED WITH
NUMEROUS ENGRAVINGS
AND CORRECT AND MINUTE PLANS HOW KITCHENS OF EVERY SIZE, FROM THE
KITCHEN OF A ROYAL PALACE TO THAT OF THE HUMBLE COTTAGE,
ARE TO BE CONSTRUCTED AND FURNISHED.

BY
MONSIEUR A. SOYER,
OF THE REFORM CLUB.
SIXTH EDITION .
LONDON:
SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, & CO., STATIONERS HALL COURT:
AND SOLD BY
JOHN OLLIVIER, PALL-MALL.
1849.

Barff Tucker , del. J. Walmsley , sculp.

TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS
THE DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE .

Your Royal Highness ,

The gracious condescension which permits of the dedication of this Work to your Royal Highness, adds another to the many claims upon my devotedness and my gratitude.

I have the high honour to be
Your Royal Highness
Most obedient and humble Servant,
ALEXIS SOYER.

THE FOLLOWING DISTINGUISHED PERSONS HAVE HONOURED THE AUTHOR WITH THEIR APPROBATION, AND THIS VOLUME, WITH THE KITCHEN PLAN OF THE REFORM CLUB, WERE COMMENCED UNDER THEIR PATRONAGE.

AT the request of several persons of distinction, who have visited the Reform Club,particularly the ladies, to whom I have always made it a rule never to refuse anything in my power, for indeed it must have been the fair sex who have had the majority in this domestic argument to gain this gastronomical election,Why do you not write and publish a Cookery-book? was a question continually put to me. For a considerable time this scientific word caused a thrill of horror to pervade my frame, and brought back to my mind that one day, being in a most superb library in the midst of a splendid baronial hall, by chance I met with one of Miltons allegorical works, the profound ideas of Locke, and several chefs-duvre of one of the noblest champions of literature, Shakspeare; when all at once my attention was attracted by the nineteenth edition of a voluminous work: such an immense success of publication caused me to say, Oh! you celebrated man, posterity counts every hour of fame upon your regretted ashes! Opening this work with intense curiosity, to my great disappointment what did I see,a receipt for Ox-tail Soup! The terrifying effect produced upon me by this succulent volume made me determine that my few ideas, whether culinary or domestic, should never encumber a sanctuary which should be entirely devoted to works worthy of a place in the Temple of the Muses.