Soyer's Culinary Campaign: Being Historical Reminiscences of the Late War. With The Plain Art of Cookery for Military and Civil Institutions

Farewell to the Crimea--Last glimpses--A collision--Rough weather--A strange coincidence--The Russian foundling--His history--A metamorphosis--The Sultan’s banquet--Sight-seeing...

A final trial--Distribution of the Order of the Bath--Letter from Lord Gough--Farewell to the battle-field--Bonfires--Grand _coup-d’œil_--Lord W. Paulet’s farewell party--Partin...

Cathcart’s Hill deserted--The Madrigal Club--Mrs. Seacole again--Sally the Egyptian beauty--The dark maid of the Eastern War--The Land Transport Corps Hospital--Conversation wit...

Preparations for my departure--French, Turkish, and Sardinian camps--Lord Ward--A visit to Mr. Upton--The lost pony--A bright idea--A famous piece of roast-beef--Mrs. Seacole an...

Visitors to Miss Nightingale--The floating drawing-room--Terrible cannonade--A sortie--Second series of visitors--Young Thomas, the drummer-boy--His devotion to Miss Nightingale...

Interview with Lord W. Paulet--Plans discussed--A new medical corps required--Reminiscences--Soyer’s House--An Oriental chorus--Various expedients--Crusade against the rats--Dai...

Culinary education of the soldier-pupils--Meeting with Miss Nightingale--Reforms in the hospitals--Testimonials--Miss Nightingale’s carriage rescued--That lady’s exertions--Her...

Kitchens in the Turkish and Sardinian camps--Triumphal entry into Balaklava--Missed for three days--Telegraphed for--Lots of news--My secretary in trouble--Arrival of Lord Ward...

Off to head-quarters--A sensation--Mrs. Seacole’s salutation--General Simpson--An interview--Plans--Invitation to dinner--Bread-biscuits--Prescribe for the General--General Eyre...

Business suspended--Holiday-time for the cooks--Breakfast in the Malakhoff--Transferred to the Mamelon Vert--Attack of Crimean fever--Kind attentions--Relapse--An unexpected vis...

A most curious dream haunted my mind throughout the night, one of those indescribable phantasmagorian illusions which set all the vibrations of the heart at work without moving...

Tour of inspection at Marseilles--The booking office--Sleeping upon deck--Places transferred--The bouillabaisse--The Olio--Marseilles dishes--A harrowing spectacle--The _Simois_...

Excellent quality of the stoves--Mr. Phillips--Strange way of repairing--Interview with General Codrington--installed on Cathcart’s Hill--Gourmet and gourmand--Lessons to the so...

Invitations--Colonel Seymour’s kindness--He is wounded--Visit to the disabled officer--Desertions--Tents pitched at last--A gay scene--Bill of fare--My reception commences--The...

Miss Nightingale dangerously ill--Her removal to the Sanatorium--Worst form of Crimean fever--General consternation--Conversation with the Captain--Better news--Visit the Sanato...

The extra-diet kitchens closed--One large kitchen--Plan for keeping the dinners hot--General satisfaction--The General Hospital--Summons to Kululee--Labours there--Palace and Hy...

Departure from Greece--Amusements at sea--The Dardanelles--Gallipoli--A philharmonic soirée--Approach to the Bosphorus--First view of the Scutari Hospital--Reflections--The dese...

Reception at the War Office--Full powers granted--The Duke of Cambridge--His _chef de cuisine_, Comte--Model of a portable camp or field stove--Visit to Lord Shaftesbury--Dr. An...

Departure--Bosphorus gulls--The Sultan afloat--The _Robert Lowe_--Splendid scene--Godfrey Tower--Sweet Waters of Asia--Therapia--Buyukderé--The Giant’s Mountain--The Euxine--Nav...

Inspection of stores--Methods pursued--Interview with Lord W. Paulet--Scene in a kitchen--Terrible confusion--Only one plate--Underdone and overdone--Receipt for nourishing fare...

Question of fuel--Saving of hundreds per cent.--Miss Nightingale’s indisposition--Mr. Upton--Who caught the rats?--Lots of acquaintances--A short cut--Arrive at head-quarters--G...

Dinner on board the _Baraguay d’Hilliers_--Bread-biscuit--Good news of Miss Nightingale--Operations at the Sanatorium kitchen--A borrowed pony--Don’t lose the saddle--No police...

Miss Nightingale indisposed--More visitors--Admiral Boxer--A valuable receipt--The admiral’s indefatigable industry--Miss Nightingale’s perseverance--Off to the hospitals again-...

Trip to Kamiesch--Bornet’s love for war--Dangerous quarters--Arrival at Kamiesch--Town of pasteboard--The 8th of September--Orders for the assault--Carousals--Looking on--Stoppe...

Comfortable couch--A terrible _sortie_--The borrowed animal reclaimed--A bad position--Lord Raglan lends me another steed--General Estcourt--Female improvements--Visit to the Fr...

Sad scenes--Ride to Cathcart’s Hill--Glorious news--Animated groups--First spoils--Refreshment for the wounded--Chloroform--Dinner at the Carlton--Sebastopol in flames--A night...

Cordial reception--Table-d’hôte--Absence of the fair sex--Warlike sentiments--Toasts--Scene at the Tophané landing-place--A chorus of boatmen--Caiques and caidjees--Romantic ill...

Plan of proceeding--Inconveniences--Too many cooks spoil the broth--Supplementary scale--How to make tea--The Scutari Teapot--Soyer House--Kululee Hospital--Beautiful view of th...

A comfortable berth--A skirmish with the rats--A doubtful victory--Arrival of reinforcements--Abandon the field--The Sardinian contingent--Naval hospital in Leander Bay--Victims...

Good news--First meeting with Mr. Bracebridge--The Hyder Pacha Hospital--Bad cooking--The General Hospital--Meeting with Miss Nightingale--Plans discussed--Miss Nightingale’s an...

Off in the _Ottawa_--A calm in the Bosphorus--Deceitful appearances--Captain Bone--Fellow-passengers--A concert in the Black Sea--Intrepidity of P. M.--My Zouave--Harmony in my...

A grand Oriental summer banquet--The first halt--Start afresh--The Pacha’s harem--Numerous visits--A brilliant cavalcade--Revolt among the horses--The Governor’s reception--A Tu...

The lost pocket-book--Found at last--Scene at a station--Caught in a fog--Arrival at Boulogne--The Emperor’s first valet-de-chambre--An avalanche of earth--Table talk--Napoleon’...

An accomplished linguist--Le Petit Champ des Morts--Bird’s-eye view--Breakfast table of the hotel--English Embassy--Interview with Lady Stratford de Redcliffe--The sanctuary of...

At ten minutes to two I entered the superb portico of Stafford House, and was shown to the ground-floor library by the Duke’s piper, young Mackenzie. “Her Grace will be with you...

Orders to start--An accident in port--Farewells--Colonel Dennis’s good luck--Admiral Boxer’s kindness--_En route_ at last--Crimean Zouave flies--At sea--New scene of enchantment...

roughly nursed by the mother sea. The dinner was probably excellent, but no one could tell--not even myself. Towards night, the rolling waves grew a little more sociable; so we...