The Menu Book

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Excerpt from The Menu Book: Practical Gastronomy, a Menu Compiler, and Register, of Dishes The ever-growing necessity for variety in our menus impels us to glean new ideas and fresh help from every possible source. The object, therefore, of this culinary handbook is in the first place to assist caterers, restaurateurs, managers, maltres d'hôtel, chefs, stewards, head waiters, and housekeepers to plan and compile menus of every kind of meal with greater ease, and to enable them to have at their disposal a large and constant variety of seasonable and suitable dishes. Every course, from hors-d'oeuvre to dessert, has been exhaustively treated, and the work is compiled so as to give at a glance an almost infinite variety of every possible kind of dish that can be introduced into a menu. In most cases the- requisite mode of cooking, the garniture and style of dressing or dishing up, is briefly described. The book should not, however, be confused with a book of recipes, for its raison d'être is to enable those who can cook or superintend cooking to draft menus with greater ease, and to give each dish its proper French name. The adoption of French names in menus has become fashionable because most of the typical French dishes have become fully naturalised in the kitchens and on the tables of this country. It therefore becomes the duty of all persons interested in culinary matters to know how to describe them in correct French. The author can hardly expect that this book will bring about a revolution in the customs of gastronomy, but he does hope that its use will be the means of introducing greater variety into the daily menus, and, if possible, economy in the preparation of dishes. Hence its mission should, if for no other purpose, prove practical and useful to such who avoid ordinary cookery books and fight shy of scientific culinary treatises. If such an aim is achieved the author's efforts will be amply rewarded. The present, enlarged edition contains a special chapter on the Art of Menu Compilation, as well as over 2, 000 additional dishes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.