2. Flour llo
3. Macaroni and other flour pastes 118
4. Yeast bread — Yeast 122
CHAPTER V
Food in its Relation to Life
1. Bodystuffs and foodstuffs 136
2. Diet 141
CHAPTER VI
Tissue-building Foods : The Flesh of Animals
1. Meat : Its structure, composition, and cooking . . . 144 i
2. Meat : Cuts, marketing and food value 172 '
3. Poultry and game 192 j
4. A lesson in digestion, illustrated by the digestive organs of a i
fowl 195 I
6. Fish and shell-fish 200
CHAPTER VII
Fuel Foods: Fat from Animals and Oil from Plants
1. Fats and oils : What they are and what they are good for . 212
2. Cooking in fat : Frying and saut^ing 216
CHAPTER VIII
Acid and Salt Supplying Foods: Fruits and Vegetables
1. Fruits 226
2. Vegetables 235
3. Cream -of-vegetable soups ....... 248
4. Salads , , « , « . 252
CONTENTS xix
CHAPTER IX
Sugar and Sweets
sect. page
1. Sugar — Candies 259
2. Cakes and desserts 264
8. Ice-cream and water-ices 276
CHAPTER X
The Preservation of Food
1. The spoiling of food : Wiiat bacteria have to do with it . . 280
2. Canning and jelly-making 284
CHAPTER XI
Special Diets
1. Diet for babies — Special preparations of milk . . , 289
2. Diet for the sick 296
CHAPTER XII
Beverages : Tea, Coffee, Cocoa
1. Tea. 308
2. Coffee 311
3. Cocoa and chocolate 314
Appendix A. Table showing composition of American food
materials 319
Appendix B. Table showing quantity of foodstuffs obtained in
different food materials for 25 cents 327
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THE MOTTO OF THE NEW YOKK CITY PUBLIC
SCHOOL KITCHENS
Good cookery means the knowledge of all fruits, herbs,
balms, and spices, and of all that is healing and sweet in
fields and groves, and savory in meats. It means careful-
ness, inventiveness, watchfulness, willingness, and readiness
of appliance. It means the economy of your great^gi-and-
mothers and the science of modern chemists. It means
much tasting and no wasting. It means English thorough-
ness, French art, and Arabian hospitality. It means, in
fine, that you are to be perfectly and always ladies (loaf-
givers). And, as you are to see that everybody has some-
thing pretty to put on, so you are to see that everybody
has something nice to eat. — Ruskin.
INTRODUCTION
HOMES AND HOME-MAKING
The mission of the ideal woman is to make the whole world
homelike. — Frances Willard.
TO THE GIRLS WHO WILL USE THIS BOOK : —
The business of home-making. — Have you ever
thought what an important business home-making is?
The prosperity of a nation is founded in the welfare of
families, and the welfare of a family depends upon its
having a healthful, happy home.
Origin of the home. — The home, as we know it, has
grown out of the need of a shelter for family life.
Parent birds build nests, not for themselves, — they
could perch comfortably under cover of leafy twigs, —
but in order to have places in which to rear their
young. Thus, long ago, before men had learned to
build houses and cities, mothers, seeking shelter for
their babies, crept into caves. These were the first
homes of human beings.
Women the home-makers. — The home-makers have
always been women, the care of the home and the
management of household industries having been at
all times in their hands. In very early times men
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2. Flour llo
3. Macaroni and other flour pastes 118
4. Yeast bread — Yeast 122
CHAPTER V
Food in its Relation to Life
1. Bodystuffs and foodstuffs 136
2. Diet 141
CHAPTER VI
Tissue-building Foods : The Flesh of Animals
1. Meat : Its structure, composition, and cooking . . . 144 i
2. Meat : Cuts, marketing and food value 172 '
3. Poultry and game 192 j
4. A lesson in digestion, illustrated by the digestive organs of a i
fowl 195 I
6. Fish and shell-fish 200
CHAPTER VII
Fuel Foods: Fat from Animals and Oil from Plants
1. Fats and oils : What they are and what they are good for . 212
2. Cooking in fat : Frying and saut^ing 216
CHAPTER VIII
Acid and Salt Supplying Foods: Fruits and Vegetables
1. Fruits 226
2. Vegetables 235
3. Cream -of-vegetable soups ....... 248
4. Salads , , « , « . 252
CONTENTS xix
CHAPTER IX
Sugar and Sweets
sect. page
1. Sugar — Candies 259
2. Cakes and desserts 264
8. Ice-cream and water-ices 276
CHAPTER X
The Preservation of Food
1. The spoiling of food : Wiiat bacteria have to do with it . . 280
2. Canning and jelly-making 284
CHAPTER XI
Special Diets
1. Diet for babies — Special preparations of milk . . , 289
2. Diet for the sick 296
CHAPTER XII
Beverages : Tea, Coffee, Cocoa
1. Tea. 308
2. Coffee 311
3. Cocoa and chocolate 314
Appendix A. Table showing composition of American food
materials 319
Appendix B. Table showing quantity of foodstuffs obtained in
different food materials for 25 cents 327
I
THE MOTTO OF THE NEW YOKK CITY PUBLIC
SCHOOL KITCHENS
Good cookery means the knowledge of all fruits, herbs,
balms, and spices, and of all that is healing and sweet in
fields and groves, and savory in meats. It means careful-
ness, inventiveness, watchfulness, willingness, and readiness
of appliance. It means the economy of your great^gi-and-
mothers and the science of modern chemists. It means
much tasting and no wasting. It means English thorough-
ness, French art, and Arabian hospitality. It means, in
fine, that you are to be perfectly and always ladies (loaf-
givers). And, as you are to see that everybody has some-
thing pretty to put on, so you are to see that everybody
has something nice to eat. — Ruskin.
INTRODUCTION
HOMES AND HOME-MAKING
The mission of the ideal woman is to make the whole world
homelike. — Frances Willard.
TO THE GIRLS WHO WILL USE THIS BOOK : —
The business of home-making. — Have you ever
thought what an important business home-making is?
The prosperity of a nation is founded in the welfare of
families, and the welfare of a family depends upon its
having a healthful, happy home.
Origin of the home. — The home, as we know it, has
grown out of the need of a shelter for family life.
Parent birds build nests, not for themselves, — they
could perch comfortably under cover of leafy twigs, —
but in order to have places in which to rear their
young. Thus, long ago, before men had learned to
build houses and cities, mothers, seeking shelter for
their babies, crept into caves. These were the first
homes of human beings.
Women the home-makers. — The home-makers have
always been women, the care of the home and the
management of household industries having been at
all times in their hands. In very early times men
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