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Excerpt from Our Cooks in Council: A Manual of Practical and Economical Recipes for the Household They are frank to say, also, with this laudable purpose they hope to aid an enterprise connected with their church. The recipes have been furnished by practical, successful housekeepers, and will be found reliable in every case. The laborer and the professional man needs 'plain, nutritious food properly prepared, nor should the polite dinner transgress a single law of health. Napoleon said, An army moves upon its stomach; and a certain divine affirms that much religious despondency is due to indigestion. Since health and happiness so largely depend on palatable and wholesome food, the best system of cooking should be followed. We often hear such remarks as: I had poor luck with my bread today. I didn't hit it right on my cake, while the truth is, such cooking is done in ignorance or inexcusable care lessness. 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.