Culinary Jottings for Madras
- Year
- 1878
- Era
- 19th century
- Origin
- India · South Asia
- Language
- English
- Category
- South Asia
Culinary Jottings for Madras, first issued in 1878 under the pen-name Wyvern, gathers the kitchen counsel of Colonel Kenney-Herbert for the Anglo-Indian household. Running to five editions by 1885, the work became a standard manual of the Madras Presidency, codifying a hybrid cookery that adapted French and English technique to Indian ingredients, servants, and climate, and remains a key source for the domestic culture of late nineteenth-century British India.
Cooking from this book
Country Captain
Signature dishA dry, lightly spiced chicken curry browned with onions and a careful hand of curry powder, Country Captain became one of the dishes most readily linked with Kenney-Herbert's writing. Aimed at the British officer's table in Madras, his treatment refined a familiar Anglo-Indian standby into something considered, modern and well mannered. Its appearance across the five editions issued up to 1885 helped fix the dish in the colonial culinary imagination.
An editorial note on a dish associated with this book, written for The Coquinist. It is not a reproduction of the book's recipe.
