THE

COOK'S ORACLE;

CONTAINING

RECEIPTS FOR PLAIN COOKERY,

ON THE

MOST ECONOMICAL PLAN FOR PRIVATE FAMILIES:

ALSO

THE ART OF COMPOSING THE MOST SIMPLE AND
MOST HIGHLY FINISHED

Broths, Gravies, Soups, Sauces, Store Sauces,

AND FLAVOURING ESSENCES:

PASTRY, PRESERVES, PUDDINGS, PICKLES, &c.

CONTAINING ALSO
A COMPLETE SYSTEM OF COOKERY
FOR CATHOLIC FAMILIES.

The Quantity of each Article is
ACCURATELY STATED BY WEIGHT AND MEASURE;
BEING THE RESULT OF
Actual Experiments
INSTITUED IN THE KITCHEN OF
WILLIAM KITCHINER, M. D.

AUTHOR OF

THE ART OF INVIGORATING LIFE BY FOOD;
THE HOUSEKEEPER'S LEDGER;
THE HORSE AND CARRIAGE-KEEPER'S ORACLE;
THE TRAVELLER'S ORACLE;
THE ECONOMY OF THE EYES, ND RULES FOR CHOOSING
AND USING SPECTACLES, OPERA GLASSES, AND
TELESCOPES; OBSERVATIONS ON SINGING,
&c. AND
EDITOR OF THE NATIONAL AND
SEA SONGS OF ENGLAND.


"Miscuit utile dulci."
A NEW EDITION
LONDON:

PRINTED FOR CADELL AND CO. EDINBURGH;
SIMPKIN AND MARSHALL, AND G. B. WHITTAKER, LONDON;
AND JOHN CUMMING, DUBLIN.

To be had of all Booksellers.


1829.

First digital edition, 2004.

Introduction

The Cook's Oracle is an outstanding complete instruction book for English cookery from the beginning of the 19th century. The edition you find here is the seventh, published in 1829.

I scanned this digital edition of The Cook's Oracle from an original copy, then image-processed each sheet to give the smallest files that are still legible on an 800 by 600-pixel video display. A high-definition version of each page, suitable for closer scrutiny or for printing, is available by following a link from the corresponding screen-sized page. For a copy of a CD containing a complete set of high-definition page images please contact me; this site cannot afford such bulk downloads.

Indices

The links in the following indices will take you straight to the appropriate pages in the book. From there you can turn pages forward and back through the book or return to the indices. If your computer's display is exactly 800x600 pixels, you would do well to remove menus, title bars and other clutter from your browser's window. With many browsers this can be done at a stroke by pressing the F11 key (in which case pressing it again should make them reappear). Others may require explicit Show/Hide menu operations to clear the decks. Start reading from one of these indices: or you can download the whole thing as a 44-megabyte PDF file or a 15-megabyte ZIP file.
For a complete copy of the high-quality page images (350MB), drop some money in my paypal.co.uk account (martinwguy(AT)yahoo.it), send me email with a postal address and I'll post you a CD.
Scanned, prepared and webbed by Martin Guy, <martinwguy@gmail.com>
First digital edition, 27 October 2004.