Cassell's Vegetarian Cookery: A Manual of Cheap and Wholesome Diet

Name: Cassell's Vegetarian Cookery: A Manual of Cheap and Wholesome Diet
Author: A. G. Payne

by A. G. Payne

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Vegetarian cooking

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Cassell’s Vegetarian Cookery, authored by A. G. Payne, is a practical handbook that presents a complete vegetarian diet aimed at the “cheap and wholesome” needs of households. The work opens with a series of endorsements from contemporary newspapers, each praising its exhaustive coverage of household management and its value as a reference for housewives. After the promotional material, the preface explains that the book is intended not only for committed vegetarians but also for those who have reduced meat consumption for health or economic reasons, promising recipes that can improve both wellbeing and finances. The table of contents outlines a systematic progression from soups and sauces through grains, eggs, salads, and a wide range of vegetable dishes, culminating in desserts and preserved foods, all framed within a vegetarian philosophy.

The tone is earnest and instructional, reflecting the late‑Victorian era’s concern with domestic efficiency and moral reform. Payne writes in a clear, business‑like style, peppered with occasional moral appeals to the reader’s sense of thrift and health. Readers who enjoy methodical cookbooks, historical approaches to nutrition, or the social context of 19th‑century reform movements will find this volume both informative and engaging.

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A Valuable and Practical Work on Every Department of Household Management. With Numerous Illustrations.

The Guardian says: "AN EXCELLENT WORK, WHICH SHOULD BE IN THE HANDS OF EVERY HOUSEKEEPER, is CASSELL'S BOOK OF THE HOUSEHOLD. Here we find the most varied information and the soundest of advice. The household, its members and their family life, are considered and discussed; children and their training, health and disease, food and clothing, furnishing, furniture, and household mechanics. The arrangement and treatment of these various subjects are admirable, and the book is certainly a most valuable and practical manual of household management."

The Queen says: "A BOOK SO HANDY AND PRACTICAL OUGHT TO BE ADOPTED BY EVERY WELL-ORDERED FAMILY. Its plan is so comprehensive, it will include every part of the house and its requirements, and all the members of the family and their mutual relations, duties, and responsibilities."

The Weekly Dispatch says: "We do not know of any more practical or more valuable work on household management. It is worth its weight in gold."

The Scotsman says: "The first volume has appeared of a book which promises to be of great and extensive utility. It is A CYCLOPAEDIA OF INFORMATION ON ALL QUESTIONS CONNECTED WITH THE MANAGEMENT OF A HOUSEHOLD, and does not enter into comparison with books that treat merely of provisions for the table. Various hands have evidently been employed in working up the various sections, and every subject is dealt with in a thoroughly competent style. The book is admirably appointed in every respect, and contains many illustrations, all of the most useful character, and beautifully printed. EVERY ONE WHO HAS TO DO IN ANY WAY WITH THE MANAGEMENT OF A HOUSEHOLD WILL FIND THIS BOOK INVALUABLE."

The Liverpool Mercury says: "CASSELL'S BOOK OF THE HOUSEHOLD is another book, of a class of which many have been issued, and good books too; but this one, by the thoroughness and comprehensiveness of its arrangement, will go far to render the housewife who possesses it independent of all the rest.... Many a housewife will find the articles interesting enough to be taken up at any leisure hour."

The Glasgow Herald says: "The work promises to be the most complete thing of the kind in existence, and even the first volume by itself is a perfect household encyclopaedia."

CASSELL & COMPANY, LIMITED, Ludgate Hill, London.

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