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The French Cook - Softcover

Louis Eustache Ude

 
9780371676721: The French Cook

Synopsis

The French Cook by Louis Eustache Ude is a comprehensive 19th-century English-language edition of Ude's earlier work on French cookery, serving as both manual and philosophy of cooking. It includes Preface and Advice to Cooks, and a detailed system of seven classes of dishes: soups, fish, removes, entrées, entremets, roasts for the second course; also numerous pastries, desserts, and sauces. The text provides extensive instructions on sauces (a core focus), broths and consommés; it guides the reader through constructing bill-of-fare menus, managing symmetry in service, and balancing flavors while maintaining health and economy. It offers biographical context about the author—the renowned chef to Louis XVI and later steward of the United Service Club—and includes numerous recipes for sauces, ragouts, matelottes, quenelles, croquettes, and various vegetable entrées and desserts. Published in 1822, this edition reflects Ude's views on cookery as an art requiring discipline, taste, and sobriety, and it remains a historical reference for classical French culinary technique.

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