Soyer's Culinary Campaign: Being Historical Reminiscences of the Late War. With The Plain Art of Cookery for Military and Civil Institutions

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                                SOYER’S

                           CULINARY CAMPAIGN.

                     BEING HISTORICAL REMINISCENCES
                            OF THE LATE WAR.

                                  WITH

                        THE PLAIN ART OF COOKERY

                                  FOR

            MILITARY AND CIVIL INSTITUTIONS, THE ARMY, NAVY,
                           PUBLIC, ETC. ETC.

                            BY ALEXIS SOYER,

  AUTHOR OF “THE MODERN HOUSEWIFE,” “SHILLING COOKERY FOR THE PEOPLE,”
                                  ETC.

                                LONDON:
                 G. ROUTLEDGE & CO., FARRINGDON STREET.
                     NEW YORK: 18, BEEKMAN STREET.
                                 1857.

               [_The right of translation is reserved._]

                                LONDON:
                     SAVILL AND EDWARDS, PRINTERS,
                            CHANDOS STREET.




                                 TO THE

                  RIGHT HONOURABLE LORD PANMURE, K.T.

                             ETC. ETC. ETC.


                                MY LORD,

 Grateful, indeed, do I feel for the unlimited confidence reposed in me
 by your Lordship during my late Mission in the East, and especially so
    for your kind condescension in permitting me to dedicate to your
Lordship this work, which at once puts the final seal to your Lordship’s
                  appreciation of my humble services.

                    With the most profound respect,
                      I have the honour to remain,
                                My Lord,
            Your Lordship’s most humble and dutiful Servant,
                             ALEXIS SOYER.




PREFACE.


The Author of this work begs to inform his readers that his principal
object in producing his “Culinary Campaign” is to perpetuate the
successful efforts made by him to improve the dieting of the Hospitals
of the British army in the East, as well as the soldiers’ rations in the
Camp before Sebastopol.

The literary portion the Author has dished up to the best of his
ability; and if any of his readers do not relish its historical
contents, he trusts that the many new and valuable receipts, applicable
to the Army, Navy, Military and Civil Institutions, and the public in
general, will make up in succulence for any literary deficiencies that
may be found in its pages.

At the same time, the Author takes this opportunity of publicly
returning his most grateful thanks to the late authorities at the seat
of war for their universal courtesy, friendship, and great assistance,
without which success would have been an impossibility.




CONTENTS.


CHAP.                                                             PAGE

INTRODUCTION.--A SUPPER AT THE “ALBION,” AND
ITS CONSEQUENCES                                                     1

I. BY RAIL AND COACH TO VIRGINIA WATER                              13

II. A SUMMONS TO STAFFORD HOUSE                                     29

III. OFF TO THE WAR                                                 36

IV. DELIGHTS OF TRAVEL                                              49

V. COMFORT ON SHORE AND PENANCE AT SEA                              57

VI. THE LAND OF THE MOSLEM                                          70

VII. A BIRD’S-EYE VIEW OF CONSTANTINOPLE FROM PERA                  83

VIII. FIRST VIEW OF THE SCENE OF ACTION                             91

IX. COMMENCEMENT OF THE CULINARY CAMPAIGN                          101

X. A TOUR ROUND THE KITCHENS                                       111

XI. FIRST OPERATIONS                                               124

XII. THE SCUTARI MISSION ACCOMPLISHED                              134

XIII. DEPARTURE FOR THE CRIMEA                                     147

XIV. COMMENCEMENT OF MY CAMPAIGN IN THE CRIMEA                     160

XV. THE ENGLISH AND TURKISH COMMANDERS-IN-CHIEF                    180

XVI. A NEW ENEMY                                                   191

XVII. RECEPTION AT ENGLISH AND FRENCH HEAD-QUARTERS                200

XVIII. A UNIVERSAL CALAMITY                                        213

XIX. HAPS AND MISHAPS IN CAMP                                      227

XX. EXPEDITIONS ON HORSE AND ON FOOT                               239

XXI. MATTERS GRAVE AND GAY                                         250

XXII. PREPARATIONS FOR ANOTHER TRIP                                266

XXIII. OUR STEAM VOYAGE IN THE “LONDON”                            289

XXIV. THREE WEEKS AT SCUTARI                                       297

XXV.