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Warne's Model Cookery
- Year
- 1868
- Era
- 19th century
- Origin
- England · Europe
- Language
- English
- Category
- English 19th C
Warne's Model Cookery and Housekeeping Book, edited by Mary Jewry and first issued in 1868, ranks among the more ambitious mid-Victorian household manuals produced by the London publisher Frederick Warne. Its enduring interest lies in the chromolithographed plates, which set it apart from the largely unillustrated cookery literature of the period and reflect the growing commercial appetite for colour-printed instructional works aimed at the expanding middle-class kitchen.
Cooking from this book
Mock Turtle Soup
Signature dishMock Turtle Soup stands as an emblem of Warne's Model Cookery, a thrifty Victorian impersonation of the costly green turtle soup served at grand London dinners. Built from a calf's head and richly seasoned stock, finished with forcemeat balls and a glass of sherry, it captured the middle-class ambition that Mary Jewry's compendium addressed. Its appearance in the book, alongside vivid chromolithograph plates of dressed dishes, helped fix it in the public imagination as the quintessential parlour-table soup of the 1860s.
An editorial note on a dish associated with this book, written for The Coquinist. It is not a reproduction of the book's recipe.
