Boiling Meat

‘Though roasting and boiling are the most common, and generally considered the easiest and most simple processes of cookery, it requires more unremitting attention to perform them perfectly well than it does to make most made-dishes.

‘That made-dishes are the most difficult preparations, deserves to be reckoned among the culinary vulgar errors — in plain roasting and boiling it is not easy to repair a mistake once made; the discretion and attention of a steady careful cook, must be unremittingly upon the alert.’