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BOSTON · LITTLE, BROWN
AND COMPANY · MDCCCC
Copyright, 1900, by Little,
Brown, and Company.
UNIVERSITY PRESS · JOHN WILSON
AND SON · CAMBRIDGE, U. S. A.
TO
MR. EDWARD H. CLEMENT
CONTENTS
| PAGE | |
| January | 1 |
| February | 20 |
| March | 43 |
| April | 64 |
| May | 78 |
| June | 94 |
| July | 110 |
| August | 128 |
| September | 142 |
| October | 166 |
| November | 188 |
| December | 209 |
| Index | 233 |
BEFORE dipping into this book veryfar, reader (pray note that I cozen youwith neither “gentle” nor “dear”),allow me to suggest that you familiarize yourselfwith the spirit of Emerson, who has allowedthat the truly consistent person changeshis mind whenever occasion offers. Then youwill be in a frame of mind to acknowledgethat I have but exercised my privilege if youchance upon passages that seem to put me ina self-contradictory position. I hold to oneopinion till new or increased light shows meI would do well to change, no longer.
Is it necessary, I wonder, to say that thiscompilation of persiflage and cookery is notintended to be the whole culinary library ofany housekeeper? In case it may be believedthat I have any such inflated idea of its value,[Pg viii]let me say at once that any housekeeper whosecures this book, by buying or by borrowing,will want just as many of the old-line “cook-books”at hand as if s