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Title: The Suffrage Cook Book

Compiler: L. O. Kleber

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Language: English

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THE

SUFFRAGE

COOK BOOK

COMPILED BY

MRS. L. O. KLEBER

PITTSBURGH

THE EQUAL FRANCHISE FEDERATION

OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA

MCMXV

COPYRIGHT, 1915, BY
THE EQUAL FRANCHISE FEDERATION
OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA

DEDICATED TO

_Mrs. Henry Villard_

AND

_Mrs. J. O. Miller_

_Introduction_

There are cook books and cook books, and their generation is not ended;
a generation that began in the Garden of Eden, presumably, for if Mother
Eve was not vastly different from her daughters she knew how to cook
some things better than her neighbors, and they wanted to know how she
made them and she wanted to tell them.

Indeed, it has been stated that the very first book printed, a small
affair, consisted mainly of recipes for "messes" of food, and for
remedies for diseases common in growing families.

Whether the very first book printed was a cook book or not, it is quite
true that among the very oldest books extant are those telling how to
prepare food, clothing and medicine. Some of these make mighty
interesting reading, particularly the portions relating to cures for all
sorts of ills, likewise of love when it seemed an ill, and of ill luck.

And who wouldn't cheerfully pay money, even in this enlightened day, for
a book containing recipes for just these same things? For in spite of
our higher civilization, broader education, and vastly extended
knowledge, we still believe in lucky days, lucky stones, and lucky
omens.

These formed no inconsiderable part of the old time cook book, and no
doubt woul