T. Berthe - Traité de l'office. Ouvrage indispensable aux maîtres-d'hôtel, valets de chambre, cuisiniers et - 1844

1 volume in-12 bound.
Author: T. Berthe.
Title: Treatise on the Office. An indispensable work for maîtres d'hôtel, chamber valets, cooks and cooks' assistants, and useful to people of fashion.
Edition: at the author’s, Paris.
Year: 1844. Original edition, authenticated by the author’s signature.
Size: 17.7 x 10.5 cm.
[3] ff., 306 pp.

Condition: The volume is in good interior condition; the binding is in fair condition. Pages 1 to 48 are uniformly browned. Creases and tears on the pages of the Table. Some stains on pp. 152 to 156. Rare foxing from p. 265 to the end of the volume. 1 folding plate on pp. 241 and 269. The other pages are clean, somewhat soiled, without foxing. Half-binding from the period, in prune calf. Smooth spine bearing title, fillets, and gilt border. Some epidermal marks on the spine. Spine, joints, tailcap, and boards rubbed. Headcap shaved, with a loss of about 0.5 cm at the front. Corners worn.

The author, a refined confectioner, is a former maître d’hôtel to Count Pozzo di Borgo and to Count Stackelberg. The work presents recipes for pastilles, orange-blossom caramels, preserves, biscuits, pralines, candies, diablotins, petit fours, snow eggs, macarons, almond meringue soufflés, ice creams, compotes, jams, marmalades, candied fruits, orgeat syrup, rhum sorbets, punches, liqueurs, candied chestnuts, candied apricots, boiled lemonade…