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Title: The Cookery Blue Book

Author: Society for Christian Work of the First Unitarian Church, San
Francisco, California

Release Date: August 20, 2008 [eBook #26374]

Language: English

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Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. A list of
corrections is found at the end of the text.

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THE COOKERY BLUE BOOK

Prepared by the

SOCIETY FOR CHRISTIAN WORK
OF THE
FIRST UNITARIAN CHURCH, SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.

"Tried and True"

San Francisco
C. A. Murdock & Co., Printers
1891

_The capon burns, the pig falls from the spit;
The clock hath struck twelve upon the bell;
My mistress made it one upon my cheek--
She is so hot, because the meat is cold;
Methinks your man, like mine, should be your clock,
And strike you home without a messenger.
My charge was but to fetch you from the mart
Home to your house, the Phoenix, sir, to dinner--
My mistress and her sister wait for you._

_--Comedy of Errors._

THE

COOKERY BLUE BOOK

SOUPS.

=Bouillon Soup.=

4 pounds of round of beef cut into dice pieces. Trim off all fatty skin.
4 quarts water; 1 teaspoonful celery seed; 4 large onions; 6 large
carrots; bunc