A Friend in the Kitchen; Or, What to Cook and How to Cook It. / Sixteenth Edition

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.”

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E-text prepared by
Brian Wilson, Les Galloway,
and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team
(http://www.pgdp.net)
from page images generously made available by
Internet Archive
(https://archive.org)