Mrs. Wilson's Cook Book eBook

Mary Wilson (poet)
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 468 pages of information about Mrs. Wilson's Cook Book.

Mrs. Wilson's Cook Book eBook

Mary Wilson (poet)
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 468 pages of information about Mrs. Wilson's Cook Book.

NUMEROUS NEW RECIPES BASED ON PRESENT ECONOMIC CONDITIONS

BY

MRS. MARY A. WILSON

(Mrs. Wilson’s cooking school, Philadelphia)

FORMERLY QUEEN VICTORIA’S CUISINIERE AND INSTRUCTOR DOMESTIC SCIENCE, UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA SUMMER SCHOOL, CHARLOTTEVILLE, VIRGINIA

INSTRUCTOR OF COOKING FOR THE U.S.  NAVY

THIRD PRINTING

PHILADELPHIA AND LONDON J.B.  LIPPINCOTT COMPANY

[Illustration:  Mrs. M.A.  Wilson in her own well-equipped kitchen]

COPYRIGHT, 1920, BY J.B.  LIPPINCOTT COMPANY

PRINTED BY J.B.  LIPPINCOTT COMPANY AT THE WASHINGTON SQUARE PRESS PHILADELPHIA, U.S.A.

TO MY FAMILY FOR THEIR UNTIRING EFFORTS IN BEHALF OF THIS BOOK

PREFACE

The influence of well-cooked, palatable food upon the health and general well-being of the family is as certain as that of changes of temperature and more serious in its consequences for lasting good or ill.

The sage old saying “Tell me what you eat and I will tell you what you are” is as full of the “pith o’ sense” to-day as in ye days of long ago, for food either makes us physically fit and fully efficient, or miserable failures with physical complications that keep us constantly in the physician’s hands.

The vital essences of that which we prepare for eating are “medicinal messengers” bearing light to the eye, vigor to the limb, beauty to the cheek and alertness to the brain, as vitamines, or distorted in the misdirected process are the harsh heralds of pain and debility to the human system.  How great then is the influence of the one who prepares it!

Influence, according to astrology, was “a power or virtue flowing from the planets upon men and things,” but from the kitchen, as a sun and heat centre, there truly flows a planetary influence that makes or mars us.

Scientific cooking means the elimination of waste, the preservation of edible resources and conservation of their potential energy through the preparation of attractive, vitalizing food with minimum cost and labor, thus providing in wide, deep measure, for harmony, personal comfort and domestic peace.

The preface of a book is too often a flat, spiritless excuse for offering it to the public instead of being a hearty announcement in welcome terms of the arrival of a much-desired provision for a real need, so I will come to the essential point at once by saying that gathered here, in these pages, are my best recipes, truly “tried in the fire,” the actual working results of many years’ teaching and lecturing, brought “up to the minute” in the interests of that exacting domestic economy now, as rarely before, imperative in its demands.

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