TABLE TRAITS,
Reading edition
WITH
SOMETHING ON THEM.
BY
DR. DORAN.
“Je suis aujourd’hui en train de conter; plaise à Dieu que cela ne soit pas une calamité publique.”—Brillat Savarin.
LONDON:
RICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON STREET;
OLIVER & BOYD, EDINBURGH; HODGES & SMITH, DUBLIN;
AND TO BE HAD OF ALL BOOKSELLERS, AND AT THE RAILWAY STATIONS.
1854.
LONDON: R. CLAY, PRINTER, BREAD STREET HILL.
TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE HENRY, EARL OF HAREWOOD, IN GRATEFUL MEMORY OF BY-GONE HAPPY YEARS, THIS VOLUME IS INSCRIBED BY
THE AUTHOR.
BILL OF FARE.
PAGE
The Legend of Amphitryon—a Prologue 1
Diet and Digestion 9
Water 14
Breakfast 26
Materials for Breakfast 31
Corn, Bread, &c. 36
Tea 48
Coffee 57
Chocolate 64
The Old Coffee Houses 67
The French Cafés 80
The Ancient Cook and his Art 86
The Modern Cook and his Science 99
Pen and Ink Sketch of Carême 114
Dinner Traits 123
The Materials for Dining 136
A Light Dinner for two 169
Sauces 190
The Parasite 219
Table Traits of Utopia and the Golden Age 230
Table Traits of England in the Early Times 244
Table Traits of the Last Century 260
Wine and Water 282
The Birth of the Vine, and what has come of it 287
The Making and Marring of Wine 303
Imperial Drinkers and Incidents in Germany 312
An Incident of Travel 313
A few odd Glasses of Wine 324
The Tables of the Ancient and Modern Egyptians 341
The Diet of Saints of Old 353
The Bridal and Banquet of Ferques 372
The Support of Modern Saints 377
The Cæsars at Table 394
Their Majesties at Meat 412
English Kings at their Tables 442
Strange Banquets 467
The Castellan Von Coucy 473
Authors and their Dietetics 487
The Liquor-loving Laureates 508
Supper 513