A FRIEND IN THE KITCHEN
Reading edition
OR What to Cook and How to Cook It
CONTAINING About 400 Choice Recipes Carefully Tested
TOGETHER WITH
Plain Directions on Healthful Cookery; How to Can Fruit; A Week’s Menu; Proper Food Combinations; Rules for Dyspeptics; Food for Infants; Simple Dishes for the Sick; Wholesome Drinks; Useful Tables on Nutritive Values of Foods; Time Required to Digest Foods; Weights and Measures for the Kitchen; etc.
By Mrs. Anna L. Colcord
Sixteenth Edition, 160th Thousand
“There is religion in a good loaf of bread.”
“Bad Cooking diminishes happiness and shortens life.”
Review and Herald Publishing Association Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. Copyrighted 1899, 1908 by the Author. All rights reserved.
INDEX TO DEPARTMENTS
PAGE
Importance of Good Cooking 4
Soups 7
Cereals 13
Toasts 18
Breads 21
Fruits 35
Vegetables 47
Salads and Salad Dressings 58
Substitutes for Meats 60
Eggs 66
Omelets 68
Puddings 69
Custards and Creams 75
Sauces 77
Pies 80
Cakes 86
Wholesome Drinks 91
Specially Prepared Health Foods 94
Simple Dishes for the Sick 98
Food for Infants 101
Miscellaneous 102
A Week’s Menu 105
Sabbath Dinners 106
Food Combinations 107
Time Required to Digest Various Foods 107
Nutritive Value of Foods 108
How to Become a Vegetarian 109
Rules for Dyspeptics 110
The Pulse in Health 111
Weights and Measures for the Kitchen 111
Household Hints 111
THE ART OF ARTS
Some maids are gifted with the art Of painting like the masters; To dullest canvas they impart The freshness of the pastures. While others, with their ready pen, Find hours of busy pleasure In polished prose, or then, again, In light poetic measure. Another, like a woodland bird, May set the sad world ringing With carols sweet as ever heard; Here is the art of singing. But there’s a maid and there’s an art To which the world is looking,— The nearest art unto the heart,— The good old art of cooking. —Selected.
PRACTICAL ’OLOGIES
Daughter.—“Yes, I’ve graduated, but now I must inform myself in psychology, philology, bibli—“
Practical Mother.—“Stop right where you are: I have arranged for you a thorough course in ‘roastology,’ ‘boilology,’ ‘stitchology,’ ‘darnology,’ ‘patchology,’ and general domestic ‘hustleology.’ Now get on your working clothes.”—Detroit Free Press.
A little girl who, when having her Scripture lesson, was asked by her sister Ruth, “Why did God make Eve?” replied, “To cook for Adam, o‘ course.”—Christian World.
There are some tombstones upon which the inscription might very properly be written, “He died a victim to poor cooking.”