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Excerpt from Around the-World Cook Book: The Culinary Gleanings of a Naval Officer's Wife All the receipts embodied in this book have been tested and are therefore reliable. They have been gleaned from many sources in many lands. Some of them have been recorded under the difficulty Of translating those foreign idioms which correspond to our fist Of our, some butter or as much sugar as you think it needs many have been given by friends, to whom I here return my thanks; some are heir looms, handed down by thrifty New England housewives, while others come from the old homes of the South; others still have been cut' from newspapers, here and there in the Odd corners of the world to which my travels have taken me. 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.