Des Entremets Sucrés Chauds

Des Entremets Sucrés Chauds

PLUMEREY, Armand (1797-1861)

Des Entremets Sucrés Chauds: suite au Traité des Entrées de M Armand Plumerey.

Paris : Mme Croissant, Librairie, Éditeur de la Collection Culinaire d'Antonin Carême, 1856. First & only edition, Printed by Imprimerie de W. Remquet et Cie, Paris.

Octavo (210x140mm) original publisher's binding, quarter bound green cloth, printed cream paper boards, [4, half-title, title-page],[527]-557,[1]pp : π², 35-36⁸.  Page head "Traité des Entrées Chaudes, Etc." , running head "Chapitre Quarante-Sixième".  Upper board lightly soiled, rear board soiled; edges faintly rubbed; faint foxing.  In French.

Plumerey was one of Antonin Careme's pupils along with Francatelli and Gouffe.  He took on the task of completing Careme's major and final work L'Art de la Cuisine Francaise au XIX-e siecle  after  Careme died in 1836, with only three volumes complete.  Careme's intention was to have the work in seven parts but only five were completed.  Volumes four and five were completed by Plumerey from Careme's notes and published in 1843-1844.  Volume five ends at Chapitre Quarante-Cinqieme.   This small volume published a decade later¹ is  Chapitre Quarante-Sixieme and a continuation of volume 5 of final Careme's work .  The pagination continues from the end of Volume five of the 1846 edition². 

Plumerey, who had also worked for Talleyrand went on to become the chef to Princess Poniatowski and later to the Comte de Pahlen, Russian ambassador to France.  Mme Croissant, Libraire was a small bookseller and publisher in Paris in the 1850s.  Several works were published on cookery, mushrooms and wine as well as a few miscellaneous titles.  The imprint is scarce.

There are twenty-five recipes for sweet dishes or puddings including beignets, charlottes and gateaux du riz.  A search of all five volumes in all online editions of L'Art de la Cuisine Francaise au XIX-e siecle could not locate the recipes contained here.

Rare

§  Unrecorded.  Not recorded in OCLC, and in particular not in the BNF.
§  Not in any culinary bibliography; in particular neither in Vicaire, Bitting, Oberlé, nor Cagle.  No auction or catalogue record could be found.

¹  On Sunday 2 March 1856, the publisher advertised the volume for sale in Le Siecle as an additional volume in the Collection Culinaire d'Antonin Caréme available either together with the other volumes or separately for 14 fr.  No other record of the work has been found.
²  compared online with the Brotherton library digital copy of L'Art de la Cuisine Francaise au XIX-e siecle