Excerpt from Breakfast, Dinner and Supper: In Five PartsIt is confidently believed by the authors of this book that it fills a place hitherto vacant. It is especially designed as an aid to housekeeping, in all its departments, comprising Hygiene of the Home, What to Eat, and when to eat it, House Furnishing and Household Economy, Entertainment of Guests, Table and Party Etiquette, Management of Servants, Cookery and Confectionery, also valuable hints and suggestions in regard to managing cases of Poisoning and Drowning. The tables of statistics in regard to the nutritive and other qualities of food, will be found interesting as well as instructive. The author has had special advantages for studying these points, and has devoted years to the analysis of foods, and to investigating the subject of Hygiene in relation to the home, the food we eat, and the air we breathe.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.