Hand-Book of Practical Cookery, for Ladies and Professional Cooks
French Culinary Instruction, Domestic Economy, and American Household Kitchen ManagementBy Pierre Blot
Length11h 47m
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Pierre Blot's *Hand-Book of Practical Cookery, for Ladies and Professional Cooks* is an expansive nineteenth-century manual that treats cookery as both a domestic art and a disciplined practical knowledge. Its recipes and directions emphasize precision, economy, order, and reproducible results, moving across soups, meats, fish, vegetables, breads, pastries, preserves, and other preparations. Written in a clear, instructional style rather than as culinary memoir, the book belongs to the Victorian tradition of household guides that sought to codify experience for an increasingly professionalized kitchen. Its significance lies not only in what it teaches cooks to prepare, but also in how it records period assumptions about taste, domestic labor, hospitality, and culinary expertise. Blot writes from the position of a practiced culinary instructor addressing two overlapping audiences: women responsible for household management and cooks working for paying employers. That dual address reflects the social transformations of the nineteenth-century kitchen, when domestic service, formal entertaining, and the teaching of cookery encouraged authors to make tacit skills explicit. His practical orientation suggests a desire to elevate everyday preparation through methodical training, while preserving the refinement associated with European culinary culture. This handbook will reward readers interested in historical gastronomy, domestic history, food studies, and the material culture of the nineteenth century. It is equally valuable to cooks curious about earlier techniques and to scholars examining how recipes became instruments of social education. Blot's work offers an unusually tangible encounter with the period's ideals of competence, civility, and well-ordered domestic life.
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Length11 hrs 47 mins
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Publish dateNov 30, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Dishes & Beverages of the Old South
26BARLEY SUGAR FOR CHILDREN.
2OLIVES.
27BAVAROISE WITH CHOCOLATE.
3OSMAZOME.
28BICHOF.
4PARSLEY, CHERVIL, THYME, CELERY, SAGE, ETC.,—FOR WINTER USE.
29TO PRESERVE BIRDS.
5WHITE PEPPER.
30BREAD-CRUMBS.
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6QUALITY OF MEAT, FISH, VEGETABLES, FRUIT, ETC.
31BURNT SUGAR.
7PASTRY-BAG.
32COFFEE.
8RAW MATERIALS.
33TO ROAST.
9SCALLOPED KNIFE.
34TO MAKE.
10SHALLOTS.
35CAFÉ AU LAIT.
11SKEWERS.
36CAFÉ NOIR.
12SPICES.
37CHOCOLATE.
13STIRRING.
38CHOCA.
14STRAINING.
39COCOA.
15SUGAR.
40ESSENCE OF SPINACH, OR GREEN ESSENCE.
16TARRAGON.
41ESSENCE OF BEEF.
17TIN TUBES.
42ICING.
18TRUFFLES.
43MEAT JELLIES.
19VANILLA.
44MEAT GRAVY.
20VEGETABLE SPOONS.
45MELONS.
21WATER.
46MEUNIÈRE.
22WINES.
47MINT.
23MOTTO.
48PANADE.
24LEMONADE OR ORANGEADE.
49PAP.
25LEMONADE WITH BARLEY.
50RAISINS.
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