Francatelli had been chief cook to the Queen and to the Reform Club, and wrote this for families living on a few shillings a week: what to do with the cheapest cuts, bones and offal, soups that will feed a household, bread and puddings, and the arithmetic of making one joint last. Condescending in places, and genuinely useful.
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