De Salis, Harriet A. Entrees a la Mode. Woodcuts Efigenia's chilaquiles from Michoacan

Efigenia's chilaquiles from Michoacan

Lithograph image titled "Gaucho of 1860" from a watercolor by Ada Peacock of a barefoot Uruguayan gaucho holding his matte cup aloft

The second volume contains techniques in half of the book

wild risottos on the islands of the Venetian lagoon and odd happenings during rain-drenched seaside holidays in the British Isles

among which are the collection's namesake essay and other such gems as Syllabubs and Fruit Fools

De Salis, Harriet A. Entrees a la Mode. Woodcuts Efigenia's chilaquiles from MichoacanCloth backed dec. olive boards. First Edition. London: Longmans, Green, 1887. Replete with elegant recipes using game, such as chaudfroid of larks, cold glazed fillets of partridge, quails en cerise with truffles, boudin of rabbit a la Richelieu, etc. Mrs. De Salis (1829 1908) was a prolific author of a series of Victorian era "A La Mode" cookbooks that were slender in volume and price. Each volume covers a different area of cooking (and one on