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Excerpt from What Shall We Have to Eat?: The Question Answered, or a Bill of Fare for Every Day in the Entire Year With Some Receipts
Oh, Dear! What shall we have to eat 3 What housekeeper has never been confronted with this tiresome and ever present question? I have written this book h0ping that it may be an ever ready answer to that wearisome interrogative. By setting down each day what was served on my own table, as a future reference to help me in deciding this every day puzzle, the thought occurred to me, Why couldn't I help to a certain extent all my sister house keepers With this thought in mind, I used my list of meals as a basis, changing and improving it so as to give the most varied and wholesome bill of fare possible at a moderate cost, choosing all my supplies at that season when they are most plentiful, therefore the cheapest and best. While the purse will give a ready answer to all pertaining to luxuries, I would make one suggestion, and it is an old one, that by using a cold frame, (a thing inexpensive in itself and requiring but little attention), anyone can have lettuce, radishes and green onions in the early Spring months at a very small cost, while the same if bought, would be expensive luxuries. The meals follow each other in such a manner that there shall be no waste, hence a great many dainty and appetizing dishes appear in my menu which at first glance would impress one as both unnecessary and extravagant, while they are really made out of the left own which are so often thrown aside or left to spoil. If a family serves late dinner then Monday's tea must we used for Tuesday's lunch, etc. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
