Fifty Breakfasts: A Splendid Victorian Collection of Over 130 Classic Breakfast Recipes - Softcover

Kenney-Herbert, Arthur

Softcover

ISBN 10: 095708370X ISBN 13: 9780957083707

Publisher: Jeppestown Press, 2011

Synopsis

Written by a former colonel in the Madras Cavalry regiment, and first published in 1894, over 130 recipes cover every possible glorious permutation of every imaginable breakfast delicacy. Toast, Fried Eggs and Bacon, Calves' Liver and Crumpets are in here, along with more luxurious recipes, like Grilled Partridge, Oyster Cutlets and Salmon. You'll never settle for cereal again!

About this title

About the Author

The remarkable Victorian Arthur Kenney-Herbert (1840-1916) enjoyed two careers. The first began when, aged 19, he arrived in India as a cornet in the Indian Army. After over thirty years' service, he retired in 1892 as a colonel in the Madras Cavalry and returned to live in London. Kenney-Herbert had a long-standing interest in cookery; in the 1870s he had written a series of columns under the pseudonym "Wyvern" in the Madras "Athenaeum and Daily News", advising the housewives of Madras on how best to supervise their Indian cooks in order to produce a reasonable approximation of French and English cuisine, and had published these columns as a book in 1879.

Once back in England, Kenney-Herbert's second career took off in June 1894, when he started the Common-Sense Cookery Association in Chelsea. The Association's school in Sloane Street taught the basics of domestic cookery, and the energetic Kenney-Herbert lectured and gave cookery presentations, as well as writing a series of recipe books. Fifty years after his death, Kenney-Herbert's work was promoted by Elizabeth David, who evidently approved not only of his clear, matter-of-fact instructions, but was also influenced by his practical approach to cookery.

Edition details

• Publisher: Jeppestown Press
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 095708370X
• ISBN 13: 9780957083707
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 168