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

CHAPTER VIII

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DINNER (_continued_)

A merry Christmas--Bin F--A _Noel_ banquet--Water-cress--How Royalty fares--The Tsar--_Bouillabaisse_--_Tournedos_--_Bisque_-- _Vol-au-vent_--_Pré salé_--Chinese banquets--A fixed bayonet--_Bernardin Salmi_--The duck-squeezer--American cookery--"Borston" beans--He couldn't eat beef 82-96