Excerpt from Apicius Redivivus: Or, the Cook's OracleThe following Receipts are not a mere manowless collection of shreds, and patches, and cuttings, and pastings, from obsolete works, but a bona fide register of practical facts, accumulated by a perseverance not to be subdued or evaporated by the igniferous terrors of a roasting fire in the dog-days, or a vote of censure from the Cooks' Company, for thus daring to promulgate the profound mysteries of the (till now, in the following pages, explained and elucidated to the humblest capacity, ) occult art of cookery. The Receipts have been written down by the fire-side, "with a spit in one hand, and a pen in the other, " in defiance of the combined odoriferous and califacient repellents of roasting and boiling, frying and broiling, the author submitting to a labour no preceding cookery-book-maker, perhaps, ever attempted to encounter, and having not only dressed, but eaten each Receipt before he set it down in his book.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.