MY
PET
RECIPES
TRIED and
TRUE
CONTRIBUTED BY THE LADIES AND FRIENDS
OF ST. ANDREW'S
CHURCH
QUEBEC
"We may live without poetry, music and art;
We may
live without conscience, and live without heart;
We may live without
friends; we may live without books;
But civilized man cannot live
without cooks."
—Owen Meredith.
QUEBEC
"DAILY TELEGRAPH" PRINTING HOUSE
1900
Rhymes to Remember...
"Always have lobster sauce with
salmon,
And put mint sauce your roasted lamb
on.
In dressing salad mind this law
With two hard yolks use one
raw.
Roast pork, sans apple sauce, past
doubt
Is Hamlet with the Prince left
out.
Broil lightly your beefsteak—to fry it
Argues contempt of
christian diet.
It gives true epicures the
vapors
To see boiled mutton minus
capers.
Boiled turkey, gourmands know, of course
Is exquisite with
celery sauce.
Roasted in paste, a haunch of
mutton
Might make ascetics play the
glutton.
To roast spring chickens is to spoil them,
Just split them
down the back and broil them,
Shad, stuffed and baked is most
delicious,
T'would have electrified Apicius.
Roast veal
with rich stock gravy serve,
And pickled mushrooms
too, observe,
The cook deserves a hearty cuffing
Who serves roast
fowl with tasteless stuffing.
But one might rhyme for
weeks this way,
And still have lots of things to
say;
And so I'll close, for reader mine,
This is about the hour to
dine."
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