A Treatise on the Culinary Art — Charles Ranhofer of Delmonico’s — 1894

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The Kitchen & Elementary Methods

The foundations of the craft — how to blanch, braise, bread, bone, carve and clarify; the elementary preparations upon which the whole kitchen rests.

Elementary Methods 182 recipes

Kitchen Utensils — an illustrated tourreading

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