Progressive Housekeeping
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ISBN13: 9780217251808
Paperback|9780217251808
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. I HAVE spoken of making some quick biscuit for breakfast. I have not given the recipe, nor do I think it will be necessary to give many cooking recipes in this series of papers. The chances are that you have a good cookery book, if not, it will be wise to get one, but here let me say a word: There are four or five excellent and reliable books in the market, the names of whose writers are guarantee of their excellence, and they are worth everything to a young housekeeper, because you may be quite sure if you fail with one of these recipes, you have but to try again, the fault will be yours, not that of the writer; but if you take one of the dozens of fugitive recipes, that are scattered through newspapers, the chances are that you will meet with vexation and disappointment; an experienced cook might make some use of them, for she would see at a glance wherein they lacked, the vague and sometimes wrong directions would be supplemented by her own knowledge of what must be right, but it is very seldom that anything is published in this irresponsible way which cannot be found precisely and correctly given in a standard work. In the same way, in buying a cookery book, do not be beguiled by a cheap compilation from some obscure publishing house, which is generally made up of the newspaper recipes before alluded to. Of course, in speaking of newspaper recipes, I do not mean those written expressly for them by the best qualified women in the country. These and the recipes which appear in Good Housekeeping, of course, have the gurantee of the author's name, and anything not perfectly clear can be enquired for. But, although I do not intend to give recipes in this series, which would swell it beyond due limits, I do intend to say, on the subject of cooking, that which may...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217251808 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217251803 |
| Weight | 0.34 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.23 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 96 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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