Nelson's Home Comforts / Thirteenth Edition

The volume offers practical, economical domestic cookery instruction and a collection of recipes and techniques for everyday and small-scale entertaining. It emphasizes resourceful use of meat, especially mutton, with step-by-step recipes for cutlets, roulades, collops, sautéed and potted preparations, pies, and other small dishes, plus guidance on stewing, frying, and clarifying gravies. Chapters mix short recipes, economy tips, serving suggestions, and variations suited to breakfasts, entrées, or invalid diets, and include notes on preserving and making sauces and soups. The tone is instructive and hands-on, aimed at obtaining variety and flavor through careful management rather than costly ingredients.