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Paul Richards' book of breads, cakes, pastries, ices and sweetmeats

1907

Page 204

Presented as published in 1907. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
mainly of expositions of catering systems, in particular, tea room, iuncdi room, department store, cafeteria., school, industrial i^ant, dining car, elub, and outside. A valuable feature of It is the illus- trating of dlfl'erent accounting systems and report fonuB; also plans of lunch rooms, kitchens and pantries, showing consistent lay-out. There are more tJian a hundred beautiful half tone illustrations picturing refreshment rooms of many kinds, their decoration, and furnlshment. Complete sets of menus of famous catering establish- ments are presented ; also a larg^e number of menus to fit the lunch room, cafeteria, industrial p-lant, or soliood. Thruout the book there is a plea for the balanced ration and right eating, the advocacy of plain foods simply prepared and appetlsingly served, the nutritive value given careful conslderatlmi. There is a chapter on service; a chapter on the brewing and serving of tea and cofl'ee; several pages devoted to pantry prepared foods; iltudtratlons of Idtctiens, of res- taurant checks, and ot many interesting things, as electrlo equip- ment; queations of fu^l economy, illumination, and a hundred and one olever Ideas In the marketing of p<repared foods in public eating houses. The book is thoroly Indexed and ctosb indexed to assure quidc finding. S85 pages, cloth bound Price, $4.00 Eggs In a Thousand Ways, by Adolpne Meyer, gives more rdiable information regarding eggs and their preparation for the table than can be found in any other book. Is indexed and cross Indexed so that any method of cocMng eggs and any cf the ganiishings can be referred to on the instant. The book starts with boiled eggs. Then (following the departmental index In alphabetical order) are cold eggs, 79 ways; egg drinks, 22 kinds; eggs in cases, 25 ways; in cooottes, 24 ways; mollet, 79 ways; molded In timbales, 29 ways; fried, 33; fried poached, 38; hard eggs. 32; miscellaneous recipes, 27 ; omelets in 210 ways ; poached, 227 ways ; scrambled, 123 ; ahirred, 95; stuffed, hard, 34; surprise omelets, 9; sweet eggs, 16; sw-eet omelets, 38. The recipes are in condensed form. The book is vest po cket size, 150 pages, printed on bond paper. Price. .$1.26 The American Walter (John B. Coins) Is the only published book that treats intelligently of tlie waiter's work from bus boy to head waiter, for both hotel and restaurant requirements. The author has rtcenf^ completed Part 2 of this book, the new part devoted largely to European plan service, and, combined with Part 1, whit^ is devoted largely to American plan service, has rounded out a manual wlilcb la very valuable to those wbp would give table service of the kind suited for the average hotel. Interspersed in the book are chsptars on the care of table wares, salad making, table setting. carving, dishing up, handling of eea foods, bulldinf of banquM tables, and many other useful items of Information. The book is illustrated, veat pocket size, printed on bond paper $l.ig The Frank E. Mdler Monthly Wages Table Book for 28, 30 and 31-day months Is In form of three wax engraved sheets bound inte a flexible cover. The tables are from $10 to $100 a month. Frlce.$1.26 Preston's Caloulator is the old standard, based on ^ days at se much per day, or week, or month of thirty days, or fraction thereof. The tables range upward from 50 cents to $10 per day; from $2.59 to $50 per week; and from $5 to $150 per month. Price SOc Hospitality (John McGovern) is a series of chapters presenting io entertaining fashion the history of hospitality from the earlleit record of man on earth to the present time $1 Drinks (Jacques Straub, wine steward of The Blaokstone). .$I.2S Applegreen's Bar Book (Mixed Drinks) $1.25 Cli fford M. Lwis' "American Plan Check System" $1.00