Soyer's Paper-Bag Cookery

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. That was fifteen years ago, and for the time, I had to confess myself defeated. As the grandson of the great Soyer, whose name is known to chefs the world over, I felt that the difficulty was one which I ought to overcome; but how to obtain the right kind of paper if, indeed, it were possible I did not know. My mind went back to the famous confectioner, Papon, with whom I served my apprenticeship at clermont-ferrand. In his way he was a great artist, and I wondered whether he would have been able to solve the problem which now confronted me.