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Title: A Poetical Cook-Book

Author: Maria J. Moss

Release Date: May 28, 2008 [EBook #25631]

Language: English

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We may live without poetry, music, and art;
We may live without conscience and live without heart;
We may live without friends; we may live without books;
But civilized man cannot live without _cooks_.
He may live without books--what is knowledge but grieving?
He may live without hope--what is hope but deceiving?
He may live without love--what is passion but pining?
But where is the man who can live without _dining_?
OWEN MEREDITH'S "LUCILE."

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A
POETICAL COOK-BOOK.

BY

[Illustration: Author's initials]

"I REQUEST you will prepare
To your own taste the bill of fare;
At present, if to judge I'm able,
The finest works are of the table.
I should prefer the cook just now
To Rubens or to Gerard Dow."

PHILADELPHIA:

[Colophon]

CAXTON PRESS OF C. SHERMAN, SON & CO.
1864.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1864,

BY MARIA J. MOSS,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the
Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

DEDICATION.

"What's under this cover?
For cookery's a secret."--MOORE.

When I wrote the following pages, some years back at Oak Lodge, as