1896 Boston Cooking-School Cookbook

Inspired

Original publication date

1896

Epigraph

Cookery means the knowledge of Medea and of Circe and of Helen and of the Queen of Sheba.  It means the knowledge of all herbs and fruits and balms and spices, and all that is healing and sweet in the fields and groves and s... (show all)avory in meats.  It means carefulness and inventiveness and willingness and readiness of appliances.  It means the economy of your grandmothers and the science of the modern chemist;  it means much testing and no wasting;  it means English thoroughness and French art and Arabian hospitality; and, in fine, it means that you are to be perfectly and always ladies--loaf givers.  - Ruskin

Dedication

To Mrs. William B. Sewall, President of the Boston Cooking-School, in appreciation of her helpful encouragement and untiRing efforts in promoting the work of scientific cookery, which means the elEveation of the human race, T... (show all)HIS BOOK IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED BY THE AUTHOR

First words

Food is anything which nourishes the body.

Last words

(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Rennet Custard (Junket):  Liquid rennet may be bought n bottles of any first-class grocer.

Blurbers

James A. Beard; M.F.K. Fisher