22500108086 Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2014 https://archive.org/details/b20416994 MRS. LINCOLN'S Boston Cook Book. WHAT TO DO AND WHAT NOT TO DO IN COOKING. MRS. D. A. LINCOLN, OF THE BOSTON COOKING SCHOOL. BOSTON: ROBERTS BROTHERS. 1884. Copyright, 1883, By Mrs. D. A. Lincoln. V«f LLCOME INSTITUTE H LIBRARY Coll. VelMOmec Call No. John Wilson and Son, Cambridge. Book IS Jietikateti TO MRS. SAMUEL T. HOOPER, President of the Boston Cooking School, IN RECOGNITION OF HER ZEAL IN EVERY GOOD WORK FOR THE BENEFIT OF WOMAN ; AND TO THE PUPILS, PAST AND PRESENT, OF THE BOSTON COOKING SCHOOL, WHOSE ENTHUSIASM IN THEIR WORK HAS MADE THE LABOR OF TEACHING A DELIGHT. *^ Not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure and subtle, but to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdom." Milton. To know what you do know, and not to know what you do not know, is true knowledge." — Confucius. PEEFACE. To cornpile a book which shall be not only a collection of receipts, given briefly for the experienced housekeeper, and with sufficient clearness for the beginner, but which shall also embody enough of physiology, and of the chem- istry and philosophy of food, to make every principle in- telligible to a child and interesting to the mature mind ; which shall serve equally well for the cook in the kitchen, the pupil in the school-room, and the teacher in the normal class, — is a difficult task. Yet the need of a book of moderate cost, containing in a reasonably small compass all this and much more, has been seriously felt b}^ all who are engaged in teaching cookery. Moreover, there is a special reason for the publication of this work. It is undertaken at the urgent request of the pupils of the Boston Cooking School, who have desired that the receipts and lessons given during the last four years in that institution should be arranged in a permanent form. To one who from childhood has been trained in all de- tails of housework, learning by observation or by actual experience much that it is impossible to receive from books, the amount of ignorance shown by many women is surprising. That a person of ordinary intelligence pre- siding over her household can be satisfied with only a vague conception of the common domestic methods, or that am' true woman can see anything degrading in any labor necessary for the highest physical condition of her vi Preface. family, would be incredible if the truth of it were not daily manifest. Happily, popular opinion now decides that no young lady's education is complete without a course of training in one or more branches of domestic work. And those who are not so fortunate as to have the best of all train- ing— that of actual work under a wise and competent mother — gladly resort to the cooking- schools for in- struction.

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22500108086 Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2014 https://archive.org/details/b20416994 MRS. LINCOLN'S Boston Cook Book. WHAT TO DO AND WHAT NOT TO DO IN COOKING. MRS. D. A. LINCOLN, OF THE BOSTON COOKING SCHOOL. BOSTON: ROBERTS BROTHERS. Copyright, 1883, By Mrs. D. A. Lincoln. V«f LLCOME INSTITUTE H LIBRARY Coll. VelMOmec Call No. John Wilson and Son, Cambridge. Book is Dedicated TO MRS. SAMUEL T. HOOPER, President of the Boston Cooking School, IN RECOGNITION OF HER ZEAL IN EVERY GOOD WORK FOR THE BENEFIT OF WOMAN ; AND TO THE PUPILS, PAST AND PRESENT, OF THE BOSTON COOKING SCHOOL, WHOSE ENTHUSIASM IN THEIR WORK HAS MADE THE LABOR OF TEACHING A DELIGHT. *^ Not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure and subtle, but to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdom." Milton. To know what you do know, and not to know what you do not know, is true knowledge." — Confucius. PREFACE. To cornpile a book which shall be not only a collection of receipts, given briefly for the experienced housekeeper, and with sufficient clearness for the beginner, but which shall also embody enough of physiology, and of the chemistry and philosophy of food, to make every principle intelligible to a child and interesting to the mature mind ; which shall serve equally well for the cook in the kitchen, the pupil in the school-room, and the teacher in the normal class, — is a difficult task. Yet the need of a book of moderate cost, containing in a reasonably small compass all this and much more, has been seriously felt by all who are engaged in teaching cookery. Moreover, there is a special reason for the publication of this work. It is undertaken at the urgent request of the pupils of the Boston Cooking School, who have desired that the receipts and lessons given during the last four years in that institution should be arranged in a permanent form. To one who from childhood has been trained in all details of housework, learning by observation or by actual experience much that it is impossible to receive from books, the amount of ignorance shown by many women is surprising. That a person of ordinary intelligence presiding over her household can be satisfied with only a vague conception of the common domestic methods, or that any true woman can see anything degrading in any labor necessary for the highest physical condition of her Preface. family, would be incredible if the truth of it were not daily manifest. Happily, popular opinion now decides that no young lady's education is complete without a course of training in one or more branches of domestic work. And those who are not so fortunate as to have the best of all training— that of actual work under a wise and competent mother — gladly resort to the cooking- schools for instruction.

Mrs. Lincoln's Boston cook book