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Title: The Khaki Kook Book
A Collection of a Hundred Cheap and Practical Recipes
Mostly from Hindustan

Author: Mary Kennedy Core

Release Date: June 27, 2008 [EBook #25914]

Language: English

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THE
KHAKI KOOK BOOK

A COLLECTION OF A HUNDRED CHEAP AND
PRACTICAL RECIPES MOSTLY FROM
HINDUSTAN.

_By_
MARY KENNEDY CORE
Bareilly, India.

PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR
BY
THE ABINGDON PRESS

Copyright, 1917, by
Mary Kennedy Core.

Preface.

WHY THIS LITTLE BOOK.

About ten years ago the idea of writing a little cook book had its
birth. We were in Almora that summer. Almora is a station far up in the
Himalayas, a clean little bazaar nestles at the foot of enclosing
mountains. Dotting the deodar-covered slopes of these mountains are the
picturesque bungalows of the European residents, while towering above
and over all are the glistening peaks of the eternal snows.

[Illustration]

We love to think of this particular summer, for Lilavate Singh was with
us. The thought of her always brings help and inspiration.

One day she prepared for the crowd of us a tiffin of delicious
Hindustani food. That afternoon while we were sitting under the shade
and fragrance of the deodar trees, we praised the tiffin. Before we knew
it we were planning a cook book. It was to be a joint affair of
Hindustani and English dishes, and Miss Singh was to be responsible for
the Hindustani part of it. Our enthusiasm grew. For three or four days
we talked of nothing else. We experimented, we planned; we dreamed, we
wrote. But alas! other things soon thrust themselves upon us, and our
unfinished cook book was pigeon-holed for years and years.

And it is