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Did Carême publish actual recipes for his mother sauces?

I'm not looking for recipe suggestions, or Escoffier's revisions, or anyone else's revisions. There are numerous recipe suggestions available from many reputable sources, many with impactful variations. (Plenty of them are effective in dishes and meet current textbook and conventional wisdom definitions.)

The intent here is to find the originals, if those originals exist.

Phil
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    While unable to provide a conclusive answer, I did find [an ebook of *L'Art de la Cuisine Française*](https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=IuApAQAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false). I am not sure if it's complete, and am not patient (or skilled at French) enough to go looking for the recipes you want, but it's a lead. You could also look for other [works by Carême](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-Antoine_Car%C3%AAme#Works_by_Car%C3%AAme). – LSchoon Aug 31 '20 at 21:17

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You can find a digital version of a treatise on French cuisine written by Carême (in French) at this link. There are recipes and instructions in it; I don't know if there is any English version of it, though.

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  • (side notes) If you can read French, this is so fun to read. – Max Sep 01 '20 at 12:08
  • That's a really cool resource... If only I spoke French! – Phil Sep 01 '20 at 15:18
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    I suspect it's actually a _treatise_, not a _treaty_. – A. R. Sep 01 '20 at 20:50
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    This book is a riot. *"Je veux donc venger mon art du tort qu'il reçoit de ces hommes audacieux qui se donnent pour litérateurs, en multipliant les soustractions qu'ils n'ont pas honte de faire, et en publiant des compilations, véritable assemblage d'ignorance et de charlatanisme."* Hah! – J... Sep 02 '20 at 11:48
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Yes, Carême published cookbooks, which were the most popular cookbooks in print in France in their day. They're still available in various editions and historical book collections. The primary ones would be the two-volume set Le Pâtissier Royal, republished in French a few years ago by Hachette, and translated into English by Andesite. These have recipes for the Mother Sauces, for 18th century values of "recipe".

It's well out of copyright, so you should also be able to find a free PDF of the book somewhere, although Project Gutenberg doesn't have one.

Let me also recommend the book Cooking for Kings, Carême's biography, which is an excellent read.

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    Archive.org has an English translation of Le Pâtissier Royal [https://archive.org/details/b21527684] the translation and transcription is a bit rough, but the information is there – Phil Sep 01 '20 at 15:30
  • @Phil Gone already, any chance you downloaded it? – jayce Sep 01 '20 at 19:15
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    @jayce It's still there, the link just got messed up in the comment. Delete the ] at the end and it works. – John Montgomery Sep 01 '20 at 22:23
  • [Try this link](https://archive.org/details/b21527684) - the link should be in round brackets not square – Journeyman Geek Sep 02 '20 at 08:46
  • The Internet Archive version says Creative Commons so it should be possible to run it through Distributed Proofreaders and crowd source a cleaner transcription. Hmmm. – user3067860 Sep 02 '20 at 14:08