Fast Day Cookery, Or, Meals Without Meat

Fast Day Cookery, Or, Meals Without Meat

Author: Johnson, Grace

Year: 1893

PREFACE Encouraged by the kindly manner in which the Press has dealt with my "Anglo-Indian and Oriental Cookery," and at the repeated request of friends, I am writing this little book. In its compilation, I have had in view both the Anglican and Roman communions. There are many who keep the Fasts and Abstinences prescribed by their Church, and there are many more who would do so if their food was served up and cooked in a healthy way. As a rule, fish and vegetables are very little understood in this country, and even in the houses of the better class one sees little else than the eternal boiled and fried fish. As to vegetables, they are out of it altogether. If this be the case where money is no object, how much harder is it for those who axe obliged to make the most of everything? I do not pretend to teach in this little book, only to give a few novel and useful recipes that most housewives will find really good and economical, and also to show that a non-flesh diet can be and is both healthy and appetising. The book will be found useful by others than those lor whom it is specially written, and most of the recipes will be practicable at all times of the year. A word in conclusion