Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Handbook of Practical Cookery: New and Enlarged Edition, in Which Special Prominence Is Given to the Preparing of New Cakes, Jellies, Etc.; To Very Simple Recipes for Cottage Cookery; Also to Various Modes of Preparing Food for the Sick-Room
The question will naturally be asked, in connection with this volume, Why is such a work required at all? Is there not already an abundance of books devoted to and exhaust ing the various branches of the subject, from the mono graph which discusses all the points and possibilities of cold mutton, to the Complete Housewife, whose common sense suggestions and elaborate instructions range over all possible topics, from the currying of a lobster to the management of a husband?
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