SO Fae tae See ae ne Oa ae For Fo : —? _—_>—s— - c = ~ , ; 3 = : - er Se RR oll bad ipv a yer etied Pay ppd Mee p ~~ = bo flee here by rare hay bore uy iat vos rhe Lys ees ae hed Pee eke ood DORIS AD riaiese ea BRUCE COTTEN COLLECTION OF NORTH CAROLINIANA Met Barve evades oes ee eee VS y Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2021 with funding from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill https://archive.org/details/ladyofgoodtasteOO0babc A LADY OF GOOD TASTE b ya ae u res ‘ ‘ Ay! eR | rig | Pn i) t As ny PLN alt | ren, ‘ sy at eo ber ayy ay RA) ued D : it i rae Ae A LADY OF SOOD: TAS TE Ri ea shle Baleoel: HER RECIPE NOTES Sac Tea PRIVATELY PRINTED: 1954 Copyright 1954 by Charles H. Babcock Winston-Salem, North Carolina Printed in the United States of America Deb DID. AT bY Oun To Katharine, Charles, Barbara and Betsy: We all love Mother. We all appreciate and shall never forget her many, many endearing qualities; her devotion to and her self- sacrifice for all of us; her teachings of personal integrity and respect for our own belongings and those of others; her teaching of good manners with emphasis on their importance; her gracious tempera- ment and poise; her thoroughness in study and her instinct for perfection in every kind of work; her warm manner, her exquisite taste, her sensitivity to all things delicate and beautiful; her keen appreciation of the arts, both fine and applied; her gift of creative craftsmanship which enabled her to achieve originality with her own hands; her delightful sense of humor and her fun-loving nature. These admirable traits and many more, are your heritage. You are fortunate to follow “In Her Steps’; and the years ahead will deepen that sense of good fortune. : Mother’s ’teen-age diary lists twelve childhood ambitions, all of them achieved in her short lifetime. But the twelfth one listed — an unusual one for a child — was not to be fulfilled until World War II: ‘““To cook delicate foods.”’ I doubt if any of you have that ambition today. But all of you will be keeping house sooner or later, and you will discover that houses don’t keep or run all by themselves. Whether you realize it or not, Reynolda and Greenwich had a master spirit behind the scenes: that was Mother. True, we've been fortunate in having competent and loyal servants, but there again Mother was always the reason why. Housekeeping, like cook- ing, is an art; and Mother is an artist. This book is composed of material taken from Mother's innu- merable files on the subject. It has been compiled by Stella Standard, eminent New York authority on cookery. To her I give my warmest Vv Nog Rtas thanks for her help in selecting and arranging the material into practical form for household use. Some day when Reynolda doesn’t operate any more you may long for some “‘citron tarts like Marjorie used to make,” or for that celery prepared by John Carter, or for that “spinach salad like Mother used to make.” ‘Then when you turn to this book, ’teen-age Mary Reynolds’ twelfth ambition will come alive again, to be re-achieved by you. Even in that modest endeavor you will realize that your per- fect Mother, and my Lady of perfect taste, lives. Love, vA rt Sateen Ormond Beach, Florida 30 March 1954 vi ; Si es ste ha ; em , i ve Vea Ae. an H , A ae Ee Ane ttn a UF if % i ms PREFACE

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SO Fae tae See ae ne Oa ae For Fo : —? _—_>—s— - c = ~ , ; 3 = : - er Se RR oll bad ipv a yer etied Pay ppd Mee p ~~ = bo flee here by rare hay bore uy iat vos rhe Lys ees ae hed Pee eke ood DORIS AD riaiese ea BRUCE COTTEN COLLECTION OF NORTH CAROLINIANA Met Barve evades oes ee eee VS y Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2021 with funding from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill https://archive.org/details/ladyofgoodtasteOO0babc A LADY OF GOOD TASTE b ya ae u res ‘ ‘ Ay! eR | rig | Pn i) t As ny PLN alt | ren, ‘ sy at eo ber ayy ay RA) ued D : it i rae Ae A LADY OF GOOD TASTE Ri ea shle Baleoel: HER RECIPE NOTES Sac Tea PRIVATELY PRINTED: 1954 Copyright 1954 by Charles H. Babcock Winston-Salem, North Carolina Printed in the United States of America Deb DID. AT bY Oun To Katharine, Charles, Barbara and Betsy: We all love Mother. We all appreciate and shall never forget her many, many endearing qualities; her devotion to and her selfsacrifice for all of us; her teachings of personal integrity and respect for our own belongings and those of others; her teaching of good manners with emphasis on their importance; her gracious temperament and poise; her thoroughness in study and her instinct for perfection in every kind of work; her warm manner, her exquisite taste, her sensitivity to all things delicate and beautiful; her keen appreciation of the arts, both fine and applied; her gift of creative craftsmanship which enabled her to achieve originality with her own hands; her delightful sense of humor and her fun-loving nature. These admirable traits and many more, are your heritage. You are fortunate to follow “In Her Steps’; and the years ahead will deepen that sense of good fortune. : Mother’s ’teen-age diary lists twelve childhood ambitions, all of them achieved in her short lifetime. But the twelfth one listed — an unusual one for a child — was not to be fulfilled until World War II: ‘““To cook delicate foods.”’ I doubt if any of you have that ambition today. But all of you will be keeping house sooner or later, and you will discover that houses don’t keep or run all by themselves. Whether you realize it or not, Reynolda and Greenwich had a master spirit behind the scenes: that was Mother. True, we've been fortunate in having competent and loyal servants, but there again Mother was always the reason why. Housekeeping, like cooking, is an art; and Mother is an artist. This book is composed of material taken from Mother's innumerable files on the subject. It has been compiled by Stella Standard, eminent New York authority on cookery. To her I give my warmest [end of dedication paragraph] thanks for her help in selecting and arranging the material into practical form for household use. Some day when Reynolda doesn’t operate any more you may long for some “‘citron tarts like Marjorie used to make,” or for that celery prepared by John Carter, or for that “spinach salad like Mother used to make.” ‘Then when you turn to this book, ’teen-age Mary Reynolds’ twelfth ambition will come alive again, to be re-achieved by you. Even in that modest endeavor you will realize that your perfect Mother, and my Lady of perfect taste, lives. Love, vA rt Sateen Ormond Beach, Florida 30 March 1954 ; Si es ste ha ; em , i ve Vea Ae. an H , A ae Ee Ane ttn a UF if % ms PREFACE

A lady of good taste