Cakes & Ale A Dissertation on Banquets Interspersed with Various Recipes, More or Less Original, and anecdotes, mainly veracious

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...

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-...

Bonnie Scotland--Parritch an' cream--Fin'an haddies--A knife on the ocean wave--_À la Français_--In the gorgeous East--_Chota hazri_--English as she is spoke--Dâk bungalow fare-...

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...

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 lu...

Origin--Early dinners--The noble Romans--"Vitellius the Glutton"--Origin of haggis--The Saxons--Highland hospitality--The French invasion--Waterloo avenged--The bad fairy "_Ala_...

French soup--A regimental dinner--A city banquet--_Baksheesh_--Aboard ship--An ideal dinner--Cod's liver--Sleeping in the kitchen--A _fricandeau_--Regimental messes--Peter the G...

Use and abuse of the potato--Its eccentricities--Its origin--Hawkins, not Raleigh, introduced it into England--With or without the "jacket"?--Don't let it be _à-la_-ed--Benevole...

The brief lives of the best--A vegetable with a pedigree-- Argenteuil--The Elysian Fields--The tomato the emblem of love--"Neeps"--Spinach--"Stomach-brush"--The savoury tear-pro...

Different modes of manufacture--The "native" fraud--"That man's family"--The French _kari_--A Parsee curry--"The oyster in the sauce"--Ingredients--Malay curry--Locusts--When to...

Old supper-houses--The Early Closing Act--Evans's--Cremorne Gardens--"The Albion"--Parlour cookery--Kidneys fried in the fire-shovel--The true way to grill a bone--"Cannie Carle...

The ups and downs of life--Stirring adventures--Marching on to glory--Shooting in the tropics--Pepper-pot--With the _Rajah Sahib_--Goat-sacrifices at breakfast time--Simla to Ca...

Five recipes for claret cup--Balaclava cup--Orgeat--Ascot cup--Stout and champagne--Shandy-gaff for millionaires--Ale cup--Cobblers which will stick to the last--Home Ruler--Che...

Evil effects of dram-drinking--The "Gin-crawl"--Abstinence in H.M. service--City manners and customs--Useless to argue with the soaker--Cocktails--Pet names for drams--The free...

Thomas Carlyle--Thackeray--Harrison Ainsworth--Sir Walter Scott--Miss Braddon--Marie Corelli--F. C. Philips--Blackmore--Charles Dickens--_Pickwick_ reeking with alcohol--Brandy...

William of Normandy--A "head" wind at sea--Beware the druggist--Pick-me-ups of all sorts and conditions--Anchovy toast for the invalid--A small bottle--Straight talks to fanatic...

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--Brand...

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-...

Bonnie Scotland--Parritch an' cream--Fin'an haddies--A knife on the ocean wave--_À la Français_--In the gorgeous East--_Chota hazri_--English as she is spoke--Dâk bungalow fare-...

"'More honoured in the breach,' do you say, Mr. Author?" I fancy I hear some reader inquire. "Are these your sentiments? Do you really mean them?" Well, perhaps, they ought to b...

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 lu...

Origin--Early dinners--The noble Romans--"Vitellius the Glutton"--Origin of haggis--The Saxons--Highland hospitality--The French invasion--Waterloo avenged--The bad fairy "_Ala_...

_Imprimis_, the French invasion is due to the universal craze for imitation, which may be the sincerest form of flattery, but which frequently leads to bad results. For years pa...

A Christmas dinner in the early Victorian era! _Quelle fête magnifique!_ The man who did not keep Christmas in a fitting manner in those days was not thought much of. "Dines by...

French soup--A regimental dinner--A city banquet--_Baksheesh_--Aboard ship--An ideal dinner--Cod's liver--Sleeping in the kitchen--A _fricandeau_--Regimental messes--Peter the G...

Use and abuse of the potato--Its eccentricities--Its origin--Hawkins, not Raleigh, introduced it into England--With or without the "jacket"?--Don't let it be _à-la_-ed--Benevole...

The brief lives of the best--A vegetable with a pedigree--Argenteuil--The Elysian Fields--The tomato the emblem of love--"Neeps"--Spinach--"Stomach-brush"--The savoury tear-prov...

Different modes of manufacture--The "native" fraud--"That man's family"--The French _kari_--A Parsee curry--"The oyster in the sauce"--Ingredients--Malay curry--Locusts--When to...

"O green and glorious, O herbaceous meat! 'Twould tempt the dying anchorite to eat. Back to the world he'd turn his weary soul, And dip his fingers in the salad bowl!"

It has, I hope, been made sufficiently clear that neither water-cress nor radishes should figure in a dressed salad; from the which I would also exclude such "small deer" as mus...

That cruel and catlike courtesan, Cleopatra, is alleged to have given the most expensive supper on record, and to have disposed of the _bonne bouche_ herself, in the shape of a...

Old supper-houses--The Early Closing Act--Evans's--Cremorne Gardens--The "Albion"--Parlour cookery--Kidneys fried in the fire-shovel--The true way to grill a bone--"Cannie Carle...

The ups and downs of life--Stirring adventures--Marching on to glory--Shooting in the tropics--Pepper-pot--With the _Rajah Sahib_--Goat-sacrifices at breakfast time--Simla to Ca...

The subject of PUNCH is such an important one that it may be placed first on the list of dainty beverages which can be made by the art or application of man or woman.

Five recipes for claret cup--Balaclava cup--Orgeat--Ascot cup--Stout and champagne--Shandy-gaff for millionaires--Ale cup--Cobblers which will stick to the last--Home Ruler--Che...

Evil effects of dram-drinking--The "Gin-crawl"--Abstinence in H.M. service--City manners and customs--Useless to argue with the soaker--Cocktails--Pet names for drams--The free...

Thomas Carlyle--Thackeray--Harrison Ainsworth--Sir Walter Scott--Miss Braddon--Marie Corelli--F. C. Philips--Blackmore--Charles Dickens--_Pickwick_ reeking with alcohol--Brandy...

William of Normandy--A "head" wind at sea--Beware the druggist--Pick-me-ups of all sorts and conditions--Anchovy toast for the invalid--A small bottle--Straight talks to fanatic...