Cookery for Seamen

A document initially published in 1894, instructing cooks at sea on how to cope with a limited amount of equipment and a paltry set of ingredients. Recipes include gruel, beef tea and devilled bones.

About the author

Alexander Quinlan was a teacher at the Liverpool City Council Seamen's Cookery Classes. N. E. Mann was head teacher of the Liverpool Training School of Cookery. Stawell Heard is a librarian at the Caird Library and Archive in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich.

Summary

Originally published in 1894, Cookery for Seamen details recipes perfect for on-board meal preparation, first taught to sailors at the Liverpool Training School of Cookery, and is faithfully reproduced here from an original edition held in the Caird Library's collection at the National Maritime Museum.

Product details

• Authors: Stawell Heard, Mann, N. E. Mann, N.E. Mann, National Maritime Museum, Alexander Quinlan
• Publisher: Aidan Lucid
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2019
• EAN: 9781906367626
• ISBN: 978-1-906367-62-6
• No. of pages: 80
• Dimensions: 109 mm x 152 mm x 13 mm
• Weight: 136 g
• Subjects: Guides > Food & drink > General, dictionaries, tables; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous