Dining With Sherlock Holmes: A Baker Street Cookbook

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1976. Stated First Printing. xii, 239 pages: illustrations; 27 cm Fine in near fine jacket with small closed edge-tear and minor corner wear; now in archival mylar. Hardcover. ISBN: 9780672521942, 0672521946

Contents: Foreword. Acknowledgments. The gastronomic Holmes and the cuisine of his England. "Elementary, my dear Watson". Breakfast at Baker Street. The Stanley Hopkins breakfast; Breakfast to celebrate the recovery of a lost document; Marksman's breakfast; The sign of four; Cold beef from the sideboard; Baskerville breakfast; The Sherlock Holmes Swiss breakfast; The wedding breakfast. "A singular set of recipes, Watson". Oysters Athelney Jones; Prawn salad Ryder; The trout in the milk; Galantine of pork with Sauce Oxford or Sauce Cambridge; Veal cutlet Coram; Chicken breasts Murillo; Something nutritious at Simpson's; Steak Tonga; The Cornish horror; Medallion of Beef Montpensier; Ned Hunter's curried mutton; Baskerville beef tongue, Sauce Chantilly; Mrs. Barrymore's potato cakes; Eccles cakes; Mrs. Hudson's biscuiits; Peaches Cartwright. The sideboard. "Dr. Watson, Mr. Sherlock Holmes"; "Oysters, and a brace of grouse . . ."; After tea on a summer evening, or enter Mycroft; The irregular sandwich; Enter Mrs. Turner; A cold supper for burglars; An epicurean cold supper; Pate de foie gras Pie a la Watson; Dinner for two: a pleasant reunion; Retirement is Sussex. On the chase. The start of a brilliant career; The pheasant months; A cold supper in Kent; To babble of green peas. in early April?; The ultimate destiny of a goose; The game is afoot. The horrors of a country inn. The Railway Arms; An unnamed hotel in Wallington; The Crown Inn; The Black Swan; The Fighting Cock; The Green Dragon; The Westville Arms; The Chequers; The Hereford Arms. Appendix: The menu from the Sherlock Holmes dinner at the Culinary Institute of America, June 2, 1973.