The Home Science Cook Book (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Home Science Cook Book<br><br>The aim of this book is not to answer the question "what' as to choice of foods, nor "why' certain processes have been adopted as best suited to their preparation for the table, but it endeavors to tell "how' to put materials together to produce results pleasing to the eye and palate and nourishing to the body.<br><br>The choice of foods may be considered in another handbook, but this one is distinctly a cook-book.<br><br>Cook-books of the past contained recipes for coloring fabrics, healing diseases, for cleaning, for pickling and preserving, yet little by little these processes have become trades, and have departed or are gradually going from under the home roof, probably never to return. The art of cooking still remains, and since the introduction of the chafing-dish and the gas stove is receiving new attention.<br><br>This book is no rival to the larger cook-books, but presents much in little space, and suggests many short cuts for those who believe in simplifying life and for the busy people who have not time for elaborate processes. It will be most helpful to those who have taste and judgment in other matters, and are willing to use both brains and hands when cooking. Cleanness in every detail and "the application of good sense to the circumstances of the moment' are essentials in good cooking.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This 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.