The Treasury of French Cookery. By Mrs. Toogood. (Bentley.)— This
is a book which ought to be in every household, but which it is hopeless to recommend to every kitche-^ If cooks would only read,
mark, learn, and inwardly digest it, we should indeed have less difficulty in going through the latter process with their dishes. The groat beauty of the receipts collected by Mrs. Toogood is their almost infinite variety There are, we believe, sixty sauces, and nearly thirty ways of cooking potatoes. Now, we are afraid that in many houses the old sneer against the multiplicity of religions sects and the unity of sauce has not lost its application, while we are certain that some families never depart from a boiled potato. All these benighted beings should be compelled to buy Mrs. Toogood's manual, unless it be urged that such reading would be too great a treat for them, and ought to be reserved for those who are more worthy.
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