“CASSELL’S DICTIONARY OF COOKERY is one of the most thorough and comprehensive works of the kind. To expatiate on its abundant contents would demand pages rather than paragraphs.”—The Times.
“One of the most handsome, practical, and comprehensive books of cookery.”—Saturday Review.
“It seems to us that this book is absolutely what it claims to be—that is, the largest and most complete collection of the kind ever produced in this country; an encyclopædia, in fact, of the culinary art in all its branches. It is a dictionary which should be in every household, and studied by every woman who recognises her true mission in the world.”—Christian World.
“CASSELL’S DICTIONARY OF COOKERY is not only full of solid and valuable information as to the best method of preparing food in an endless variety of forms, but it will enable a housekeeper to grasp principles on which food may be cooked to the greatest perfection. It supplies the reason why one method is right and another wrong. An estimate of the cost of each recipe is given, which is valuable information. The recipes themselves are given in terms intelligible to the meanest capacity.”—Athenæum.
“CASSELL’S DICTIONARY OF COOKERY contains about 9,000 recipes, and is preceded by a treatise on the Principles of Culinary Art and Table Management, which will simply be found invaluable not only by cooks, as those most interested in such instructions, but by every mistress of a household, large or small.... The woodcuts dispersed through the pages not only illustrate some of the various species of fish, game, fruit, vegetables, and herbs to which the recipes refer, but serve to make the directions for carving more intelligible, while the coloured plates represent appetising dishes elaborately garnished, or fruit tastefully arranged, with several less inviting pictures of ‘bad and good joints of meat’ contrasted with each other side by side.”—Morning Post.
“The best Cookery book extant. We know of no equal, either in the arrangement of its contents, the number of its recipes, or the elegance of its illustrations.”—York Herald.
“Being complete, it tells us how to dress a table for the smallest dinner, but what I value more in it is that it reminds us of the simplest and cheapest of dishes, and gives their cost. There are more shilling or sixpenny preparations in this book than those of greater cost.”—Western Morning News.
CASSELL & COMPANY, LIMITED, Ludgate Hill, London.