Substitutes for Flesh Foods
Vegetarian
Cook
Book
By E. G. Fulton
PACIFIC PRESS PUBLISHING COMPANY
Oakland, California
Entered According to Act of Congress in the year 1904, by
Pacific Press Publishing Company
In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, Washington, D. C.
All Rights Reserved
WHY I WAS IMPRESSED TO WRITE A COOK BOOK.
It must appeal to the judgment of every thinkingman and woman that the human family are more inneed of sound, wholesome advice as to what theyshould eat and drink than ever before. The numberof physicians and dentists increases each year at analarming rate, but the aches and ills of the sufferingpeople do not lessen. Thousands of people findthemselves in a deplorable condition, with stomachsalmost worn out, having depended largely upon predigestedfoods and a long list of so-called "dyspepsiacures."
The amount of patent medicines, "sure cures,"consumed by the people in the United States isenormous, and is increasing every year. It mustbe apparent to all students of the past century thatthe people of the present are not enjoying the samedegree of health as our ancestors, nor have we anyassurance that things will improve unless some radicalchange is made.
Disease among cattle, poultry, and fish has increasedso alarmingly in the last few years that weshould no longer depend on the animal kingdom forfood. We should look to the grains, nuts, vegetables,and fruits for a better dietary than can be prepared[4]from the flesh of animals likely to be contaminatedwith tuberculosis, cancer, and other diseases.
In writing this book, the author has treated thesubject from the commonly accepted definition ofthe term vegetarianism, which means to abstain fromflesh food, but allows the use of eggs, milk, and itsproducts. After years of experience in conductingvegetarian restaurants in several cities and making astudy of the food question, he thinks he can bestow nogreater gift upon the people than to place before thema book containing instruction in the preparation ofwholesome dishes that will build up in place of tearingdown the body.
In this work I do not claim to have reached perfection,nor to have exhausted the category ofwholesome preparations and combinations withinthe domain of vegetarianism. In our efforts toteach how to live without the use of flesh foods, wefind we have only begun to discover the inexhaustibleresources of the great vegetable kingdom in theboundless wealth of varied hygienic foods.
E. G. F.
CONTENTS
| Bakery and Breakfast Dishes | 196-201 |