“This is a curious print, and unique of its kind: it presents on a large scale a coup-d’œil of the matchless culinary arrangements of the Reform Club, the various offices for which extend over the whole basement of the building. To show them at one glance, the partition-walls are cut away, and a bird’s eye view is given of the several kitchens, larders, sculleries, and batterie de cuisine: the different functionaries are all at their ports, and the accomplished chef, Monsieur Soyer, is in the act of pointing out to a favoured visitor the various contrivances suggested by his ingenuity and experience.
“With a plan of the building, there are references to a minute explanatory account of the uses of the multifarious apparatus here exhibited, for the admiration of the scientific gastronome and the envy of rival artistes.”—Spectator.
DESCRIPTION
OF THE
KITCHEN OF THE REFORM CLUB,
AND SIMPLE GUIDE FOR
FITTING UP THE KITCHENS OF THE WEALTHY.
INTRODUCTION.
THE unexpected success my new plan has met with for the building of kitchens since the opening of the Reform Club, induced me a few years ago to publish a sectional plan of it on a large scale, which I am happy to say was very successful, and met with the approbation of all scientific men, and of the higher classes of society, having received instructions since that time to contrive and arrange numerous noblemen’s and gentlemen’s kitchens, by adapting many of my new and simple discoveries to any shaped kitchen with the greatest facilities, at a very moderate expense; I therefore beg to present my readers with the reduced scale of the plan, as well as the correct measurement and size of all the apparatus. I have not the slightest hesitation in stating that, by the simple arrangements which I am about to submit, any kitchen, large or small, would be easily benefited and improved; it may also be always kept clean without much labour, the work more carefully done, and the appetite (my intimate friend) will become the keener. My motto has always been “cleanliness is the soul of the kitchen.”