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The Community Cook Book
SOLD BY
Class of Willing Workers
OF THE
WINTER ST. BAPTIST CHURCH HAVERHILL, MASS
A PRACTICAL COOK BOOK, REPRESENTATIVE OF
THE BEST COOKERY TO BE FOUND IN
ANY OF THE MORE INTELLIGENT
and PROGRESSIVE AMERICAN
COMMUNITIES
IN COMPILING AND REVISING THIS BOOK,
ONE PERSON AND HER NEEDS WERE ALWAYS
KEPT IN MIND—THAT PERSON IS
THE AVERAGE AMERICAN WOMAN, AND
TO HER THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED IN
THE FIRM BELIEF THAT IN IT SHE WILL
FIND MUCH HELPFULNESS.
THIRD EDITION—1916
Copyright 1914, Powell & White
Cincinnati, Ohio
CONTENTS
FOREWORD
BREAD, BISCUITS, ROLLS AND PASTRY
Pies and Pastry
CEREALS, BREAKFAST FOODS
SOUPS
FISH
SALADS
MEAT
EGGS
VEGETABLES
DESSERTS
CAKE
FRUITS
PICKLES AND PRESERVES
Preserves and Jellies
CANDIES
MISCELLANEOUS
BEVERAGES
DEFINITIONS OF SOME FOREIGN AND OTHER TERMS.
INDEX.
FOREWORD
The Community Cook Book is a collection of recipes chosen from manyhundreds that may well be considered representative of the best to befound in any of the more intelligent and progressive of AmericanCommunities in which a part of the population make occasional visits toall parts of the country from which they bring back choice recipes tocontribute to the neighborhood fund. Added to this, that constant changeand interchange of a part of the population, and if the best recipes ofsuch a section be carefully selected and classified, then in a realAmerican Community's Cook Book, such as this, we have one of the mostvaluable practical cook books in t