The Century Cook Book: With a New Supplement of One Hundred Receipts of Especial Excellence (Classic Reprint) - Softcover
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While the question of food and its preparation is the most vital and important one in the home, it is perhaps the most difficult of all the material questions that present themselves to the housekeepers in China, owing principally to the inability of the majority to speak the language of the country, and to make their orders intelligible to the cook. To meet this difficulty and at the same time with the hope of being able from its sale to aid the war fund, Mrs. Calder-Marshall originally planned to publish a smaller work, giving a limited number of recipes taken from authoritative sources, and to have it translated into Chinese. It soon became apparent to her, however that for such a book to have a real value, a more comprehensive work, one that should cover as nearly as possible all the phases of cooking would be necessary. The scope of the work, therefore, was enlarged until it now includes more than one thousand recipes. Many tried and approved recipes have been furnished by ladies in Shanghai and elsewhere, the largest contribution of this kind, and one that deserves special mention is that of Mrs. J. B. Fearn, M.D., who has prepared the entire chapter relating to sweets and candies, and has sent other valuable recipes as well. The editors and compilers have also made use of The Century Cook Book, Mrs. Beeton's Cook Book and The Boston Cooking School Magazine, all well known authorities on culinary matters.
The recipes embodied in this work are adapted to the limitations of the local market; efforts having been made to exclude every recipe the ingredients of which can not be readily procured in China, and on the other hand to include some of the food products of China that are not commonly found in other countries.
Tables of weights, and measures, cooking time-tables, valuable household hints, a chapter on Household hygiene, etc., have b...
While the question of food and its preparation is the most vital and important one in the home, it is perhaps the most difficult of all the material questions that present themselves to the housekeepers in China, owing principally to the inability of the majority to speak the language of the country, and to make their orders intelligible to the cook. To meet this difficulty and at the same time with the hope of being able from its sale to aid the war fund, Mrs. Calder-Marshall originally planned to publish a smaller work, giving a limited number of recipes taken from authoritative sources, and to have it translated into Chinese. It soon became apparent to her, however that for such a book to have a real value, a more comprehensive work, one that should cover as nearly as possible all the phases of cooking would be necessary. The scope of the work, therefore, was enlarged until it now includes more than one thousand recipes. Many tried and approved recipes have been furnished by ladies in Shanghai and elsewhere, the largest contribution of this kind, and one that deserves special mention is that of Mrs. J. B. Fearn, M.D., who has prepared the entire chapter relating to sweets and candies, and has sent other valuable recipes as well. The editors and compilers have also made use of The Century Cook Book, Mrs. Beeton's Cook Book and The Boston Cooking School Magazine, all well known authorities on culinary matters.
The recipes embodied in this work are adapted to the limitations of the local market; efforts having been made to exclude every recipe the ingredients of which can not be readily procured in China, and on the other hand to include some of the food products of China that are not commonly found in other countries.
Tables of weights, and measures, cooking time-tables, valuable household hints, a chapter on Household hygiene, etc., have b...
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- Publication date2020
- ISBN 10 1330020367
- ISBN 13 9781330020364
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- Number of pages721
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