Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Mrs. Clarke's Cook Book: Containing, Over One Thousand of the Best Up-to-Data Recipes for Every Conceivable Need in Kitchen and Other Departments of Housekeeping
How to cook and how to serve, are the two topics discussed in this volume. The suggestions here given are not such as an inexperienced editor might collate and combine in quantity, regardless of quality but they are the results of long and careful domestic experience in houses where these two arts were studied and practiced. Skilled housekeepers Of large experience are responsible for every recipe and hint here given. They have tried and tested these matters of which they write, and happy is the young housekeeper who can. Profit by their wisdom.
In order to profit thus, care is needed, and much study. This book on a Shelf in the kitchen will not act as a charm to prevent burning the beefsteak or toughening the pie - crust. Nor will the mere reading of it transform the careless girl into a thrifty manager of home. The book must be read, studied and obeyed. DO the things here directed and realize the benefits here portrayed. Practice makes perfect' - provided it be wise practice. Otherwise it spoils everything.
Cook books are numerous, but it is believed this, the latest and best, will surpass them all.
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