Name: The girl's own cookery book
Author: Phillis Browne

Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2015 .V https://archive.org/details/b21527386 THE GIRL’S OWN Cookery Book. BY PHILLIS BROWNE. LONDON : THE RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY ; 56, Paternoster Row; 65, St. Paul’s Churchyard; and 164, Piccadilly. PREFATORY NOTE BY SIR J. RISDON BENNETT, M.D., F.R.S. i- following pages are intended to instruct the middle 'G classes of our community in the art of Cookery, not merely for the purpose of contributing to their own health, comfort, and enjoynnent, but also to enable them to render much needed help to others, especially the poor, both in sickness and health. Neither the moral, physical, nor economic bearings of wholesome, properly-cooked food are sufficiently under- stood or appreciated by our countrymen and women. In scarcely any other country does so much prejudice and ignorance prevail on the subject of food and its employ- ment. In no more ready and efficient way can the rudiments of science be imparted than in connection with Cookery ; and -the efforts that are now being made to give instruction in Cookery in combination with Board and other elementary Schools, are a subject for sincere rejoicing with those who desire both the moral and physical welfare of the poorer classes. IV Prefatory Note. No subject is more deserving of the attention of the zealous advocates of the cause of temperance. It is truer charity to instruct a poor woman how to make a good wholesome stew with a little oatmeal and a few odds and ends of meat and vegetables, than to give her once a week a basin of good soup ; or to teach her how to avoid absolute waste of such food as she has, than to give her a shilling or two to buy a bit of mutton. A contented Christian character and a clean hearth will do much to make home happy, and a knowledge of economic wholesome cookery will also do much to keep the men from resorts of dissipation and intemperance, and the children healthy and cheerful. But let no one imagine that it will be an easy thing to overcome the prejudice and dispel the ignorance existing amongst us respecting food and its use, a subject which has so wide and important a relation to the social welfare of the people. Let us, however, hope that this little work may do something towards making “ Our Girls ” both better housekeepers and more useful as Angels of Mercy, exemplifying the character as well as imparting the good news of “ Him who came to seek and to save the lost.” J. R. B. AUTHOR’S PREFACE. This book is not simply a collection of cookery recipes, although a number of recipes are to be found in it. It is intended rather to fill the place of a guide or key to Cookery. The object which I have had before me in writing it is to inform those girls who wish to acquire skill in the art of preparing food, concerning the methods to be employed, with the why and the wherefore thereof.

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Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2015 .V https://archive.org/details/b21527386 THE GIRL’S OWN Cookery Book. BY PHILLIS BROWNE. LONDON : THE RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY ; 56, Paternoster Row; 65, St. Paul’s Churchyard; and 164, Piccadilly. PREFATORY NOTE BY SIR J. RISDON BENNETT, M.D., F.R.S. following pages are intended to instruct the middle 'G classes of our community in the art of Cookery, not merely for the purpose of contributing to their own health, comfort, and enjoyment, but also to enable them to render much needed help to others, especially the poor, both in sickness and health. Neither the moral, physical, nor economic bearings of wholesome, properly-cooked food are sufficiently understood or appreciated by our countrymen and women. In scarcely any other country does so much prejudice and ignorance prevail on the subject of food and its employment. In no more ready and efficient way can the rudiments of science be imparted than in connection with Cookery ; and -the efforts that are now being made to give instruction in Cookery in combination with Board and other elementary Schools, are a subject for sincere rejoicing with those who desire both the moral and physical welfare of the poorer classes. Prefatory Note. No subject is more deserving of the attention of the zealous advocates of the cause of temperance. It is truer charity to instruct a poor woman how to make a good wholesome stew with a little oatmeal and a few odds and ends of meat and vegetables, than to give her once a week a basin of good soup ; or to teach her how to avoid absolute waste of such food as she has, than to give her a shilling or two to buy a bit of mutton. A contented Christian character and a clean hearth will do much to make home happy, and a knowledge of economic wholesome cookery will also do much to keep the men from resorts of dissipation and intemperance, and the children healthy and cheerful. But let no one imagine that it will be an easy thing to overcome the prejudice and dispel the ignorance existing amongst us respecting food and its use, a subject which has so wide and important a relation to the social welfare of the people. Let us, however, hope that this little work may do something towards making "Our Girls" both better housekeepers and more useful as Angels of Mercy, exemplifying the character as well as imparting the good news of "Him who came to seek and to save the lost." J. R. B. AUTHOR’S PREFACE. This book is not simply a collection of cookery recipes, although a number of recipes are to be found in it. It is intended rather to fill the place of a guide or key to Cookery. The object which I have had before me in writing it is to inform those girls who wish to acquire skill in the art of preparing food, concerning the methods to be employed, with the why and the wherefore thereof.