Wyvern: Culinary Jottings for Madras - Softcover

Kenney-Herbert, Wyvern

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1903018536 ISBN 13: 9781903018538

Publisher: Prospect Books, 2007

Synopsis

The Colonel’s Jottings, which he published under the name Wyvern’, is wonderful for many reasons, of which nostalgia is just one. Including anecdotes from his career which spanned from 1859, just after the Rising, to 1892, near the apogee of the Raj, the book was never meant to be a memoir. It really is, as he explained with full Victorian floridness: A Treatise in Thirty Chapters on Reformed Cookery for Anglo-Indian Exiles Based Upon Modern English and Continental Principles with Thirty Menus For Little Dinners Worked Out in Detail.” The chapters cover every aspect of the kitchen, from the cook and his management, the store-room, and the batterie de cuisine, to all dishes suitable for dainty dining, as well as excellent chapters on Our Curries’ , Camp Cookery ’and Our Kitchens in India’. There are extensive model menus for parties of six or eight people, or for Little Home Dinners’. Elizabeth David said of this book: I should recommend anyone with a taste for Victorian gastronomic literature to snap him up His recipes are so meticulous and clear, that the absolute beginner could follow them, yet at the same time he has much to teach the experienced cook.’

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About the Author

An officer in the Madras Cavalry, the Colonel wrote down all the Indian food he enjoyed while stationed in India from 1859 to 1892.

About this edition

• Publisher: Prospect Books
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1903018536
• ISBN 13: 9781903018538
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 592