Modern Domestic Cookery

By William Augustus Henderson · Running time 16:41:21 · Cooking

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As there is scarce an individual who is not aware of the comfort resulting from a regular and cleanly meal, it may appear to many labor lost, to write a preface to a work which is designed to teach us how to prepare such a repast. But, in the daily progress of life, we may often discover an amiable and accomplished woman, who possesses a general knowledge, with the exception of domestic cookery, which, I must be suffered to remark, is a subject of infinitely greater importance to her than superficial acquirements, whether we consider her as a daughter, wife, or mother. Indeed, she can never be

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