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Title: Mrs. Wilson's Cook Book
Numerous New Recipes Based on Present Economic Conditions

Author: Mary A. Wilson

Release Date: January 1, 2006 [EBook #17438]

Language: English

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MRS. WILSON'S COOK BOOK

NUMEROUS NEW RECIPES BASED ON PRESENT ECONOMIC CONDITIONS

BY

MRS. MARY A. WILSON

(MRS. WILSON'S COOKING SCHOOL, PHILADELPHIA)

FORMERLY QUEEN VICTORIA'S CUISINIERE AND INSTRUCTOR DOMESTIC SCIENCE,
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA SUMMER SCHOOL, CHARLOTTEVILLE, VIRGINIA

INSTRUCTOR OF COOKING FOR THE U.S. NAVY

THIRD PRINTING

PHILADELPHIA AND LONDON J.B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY

[Illustration: MRS. M.A. WILSON IN HER OWN WELL-EQUIPPED KITCHEN]

COPYRIGHT, 1920, BY J.B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY

PRINTED BY J.B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY AT THE WASHINGTON SQUARE PRESS
PHILADELPHIA, U.S.A.

TO MY FAMILY FOR THEIR UNTIRING EFFORTS IN BEHALF OF THIS BOOK

PREFACE

The influence of well-cooked, palatable food upon the health and
general well-being of the family is as certain as that of changes of
temperature and more serious in its consequences for lasting good or
ill.

The sage old saying "Tell me what you eat and I will tell you what you
are" is as full of the "pith o' sense" to-day as in ye days of long
ago, for food either makes us physically fit and fully efficient, or
miserable failures with physical complications that keep us constantly
in the physician's hands.

The vital essences of that which we prepare for eating are "medicinal
messengers" bearing light to the eye, vigor to the limb, beauty to the
cheek and alertness to the brain, as vitamines, or distorted in the
misdirected process are the harsh heralds of pain and debility t