[The Girl at Cobhurst by Frank Richard Stockton]@TWC D-Link bookThe Girl at Cobhurst CHAPTER XVIII 7/19
For one thing, where did you get that recipe for that delicious ice, flavored with raspberry ?" The cook smiled with a new smile--one of genuine pleasure. "To make that ice," she answered, "one must have more than a recipe: one must be educated.
Tolati, my first husband, invented that ice, and no chef in Europe could make it but himself.
But he taught me, and I make it for Dr.and Mrs.Tolbridge.It has a quality of cream, though there is no cream in it." "I never tasted anything of the kind so good," said Miss Panney, "and I am a judge, for I have lived long and eaten meals prepared by the best cooks." "French, perhaps," said La Fleur. "Oh, yes," was the reply, "and those of other nations.
I have travelled." "I could see that," said La Fleur, "by your appreciation of my work. French cooking is the best in the world, and if you have an English cook to do it, then there is nothing more to be desired.
It is like the French china, with the English designs, which they make now.
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