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Title: Choice Cookery

Author: Catherine Owen

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CHOICE COOKERY

BY

CATHERINE OWEN
AUTHOR OF
"TEN DOLLARS ENOUGH" "GENTLE BREAD-WINNERS" ETC.

NEW YORK
HARPER & BROTHERS, FRANKLIN SQUARE
1889

Copyright, 1889, by HARPER & BROTHERS.

_All rights reserved._

PREFACE.

Choice cookery is not intended for households that have to study
economy, except where economy is a relative term; where, perhaps, the
housekeeper could easily spend a dollar for the materials of a luxury,
but could not spare the four or five dollars a caterer would charge.

Many families enjoy giving little dinners, or otherwise exercising
hospitality, but are debarred from doing so by the fact that anything
beyond the ordinary daily fare has to be ordered in, or an expensive
extra cook engaged. And although we may regret that hospitality should
ever be dependent on fine cooking, we have to take things as they are.
It is not every hostess who loves simplicity that dares to practise it.

It was to help the women who wish to know at a glance what is newest and
best in modern cookery that these chapters were written for _Harper's
Bazar_, and are