Excerpt from Practical Cooking and Serving a Complete Manual of How to Select, Prepare, and Serve FoodThe recipes are of dishes prepared by the author during an experience of twenty years in housekeeping, these are supplemented by dishes prepared to illustrate demonstra tions in cookery given before classes of housekeepers in New England, the Middle West and the South.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.