Kettner's Book of the Table

Every food on the Victorian table gets its history, its etymology and a strong opinion — the wittiest cookery book of 1877, written in secret by a Times leader-writer and named for London's most fashionable restaurant.

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Condé

It is only necessary to note here that this is the fanciful name given to a soup and to a sweet. The soup is a purée of red haricot beans. The sweet is the combination of apricots with rice, more or less elaborated. There is no particular reason why we should cherish the name of Condé. The name of Condé's castle, Chantilly, is given to Esau's pottage of lentils. It would be much better to call it Esau's soup.

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