The Pleasures of the Table

Gastronomy from ancient days to modern times — the feasts of Greece and Rome, the great chefs and their schools, the literature of the table, and Ellwanger's own views on the aesthetics of dinner-giving.

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The School of Savarin: Series

First Series.

For a Presumed Income of 5000 Francs a Year (Mediocrity). A large fillet of veal, well larded with bacon, done in its own gravy.

A country-fed turkey stuffed with Lyons chestnuts.

Fattened pigeons larded and cooked to a turn.

Eggs dressed à la neige.

A dish of Sauerkraut bristling with sausages and crowned with Strassburg bacon.

Remarks. "Bless me! that looks all right! Come on! let us do honour to it!"

Second Series.

For a Presumed Income of 15,000 Francs (Comfort).

A fillet of beef underdone in the middle, larded and done in its own gravy.

A haunch of venison, accompanied by a gherkin sauce. A boiled turbot.

A leg of mutton présalé, done à la provençale.

A truffled turkey.

Early green peas.

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