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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Humble Pie

If ever you should be told to eat humble pie, beg that you may be permitted to do so-for it is very good. It is made of the humble or numbles of a deerthat is, the inward parts. The Scotch make a wonderful pudding out of the inward parts of a sheep-the haggis. (

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