The Pytchley Book of Refined Cookery and Bills of Fare

Second edition of this cookery book, offering sample menus for each month in both French and English, and recipes for “small dinners of taste within the compass of ordinary mortals” (Introduction). Landon also includes a chapter on wines, with these choice words on the treatment of a bottle of champagne less than ten years old: “do not decant it, ice it as much as possible, the fizz and the ice may disguise the taste—I won’t call it flavour.” (p. 261).