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 meby your Lordship during my late Mission in the East, and especially sofor your kind condescension in permitting me to dedicate to yourLordship this work, which at once puts the final seal to your Lordship’sappreciation 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 principalobject in producing his “Culinary Campaign” is to perpetuate thesuccessful efforts made by him to improve the dieting of the Hospitalsof the British army in the East, as well as the soldiers’ rations in theCamp before Sebastopol.

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

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