The Young Cook's Guide

Excerpt from The Young Cook's Guide: A Text-Book on Cookery, Prepared for the Young Women's Christian Association of Brooklyn While it is possible to cultivate Literature on a little oat-meal, for there are proteids in the sug gestion, what lover of good things does not envy the old London authors those delightful repasts at the quaint taverns Leigh Hunt writes of in The Town. Boswell and Mrs. Thrale so carefully noted Dr. Johnson's eating, while seated admiringly in his company, one wonders if they had time for their own meals. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.