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Table set for Serving on the Table.

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PRACTICAL COOKING

AND

DINNER GIVING.

A TREATISE CONTAINING

PRACTICAL INSTRUCTIONS IN COOKING; IN THE COMBINATION
AND SERVING OF DISHES; AND
IN THE FASHIONABLE MODES OF ENTERTAINING
AT BREAKFAST,
LUNCH, AND DINNER.

By MRS. MARY F. HENDERSON.

ILLUSTRATED.



NEW YORK:
HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS,
FRANKLIN SQUARE.
1877.

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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1876, by
Harper & Brothers,
In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

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TO MY FRIEND

Mrs. ELLEN EWING SHERMAN,

A LADY WHO STUDIES THE COMFORTS OF HER HOUSEHOLD,

THESE RECEIPTS ARE AFFECTIONATELY

Dedicated.{9}{8}

PREFACE.

The aim of this book is to indicate how to serve dishes, and toentertain company at breakfast, lunch, and dinner, as well as to givecooking receipts. Too many receipts are avoided, although quite enoughare furnished for any practical cook-book. There are generally only twoor three really good modes of cooking a material, and one becomesbewildered and discouraged in trying to select and practice from bookswhich contain often from a thousand to three thousand receipts.

No claim is laid to originality. “Receipts which have not stood the testof time and experience are of but little worth.” The author haswillingly availed herself of the labors of others, and, having carefullycompared existing works—adding here and subtracting there, asexperience dictated—and having also pursued courses of study withcooking teachers in America and in Europe, she hopes that she hasproduced a simple and practical book, which will enable a family to livewell and in good style, and, at the same time, with reasonable economy.

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The absence from previous publications of reliable information as tothe manner of serving meals has been noticed. Fortunately, thefashionable mode is one calculated to give the least anxiety and troubleto a hostess.

Care has been taken to show how it is possible with moderate means tokeep a hospitable table, leaving each reader for herself to consider themanifold advantages of making home, so far as good living is concerned,comfortable and happy.

M. F. H.

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