Excerpt from Practical Cooking and Dinner Giving: A Treatise Containing Practical Instructions in Cooking, In the Combination and Serving of Dishes, And in the Fashionable Modes of Entertaining at Breakfast, Lunch, and DinnerN 0 claim is laid to originality. Receipts which have not stood the test of time and experience are of but little worth. The author has willingly availed herself of the labors of others, and, having carefully compared existing works - adding here and subtracting there, as experience dictated - and having also pursued courses of study with cooking teachers in America and in Europe, she hopes that she has produced a simple and practical book, which will enable a family to live well and in good style, and, at the same time, with rea sonable economy.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.