SALADS, SANDWICHES AND ***

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Salads, Sandwiches

and

Chafing-Dish Dainties

[Illustration: Table laid for Sunday-Night Tea.

"Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week."--ADDISON.]

Salads, Sandwiches

and

Chafing-Dish Dainties

_With Fifty Illustrations of Original Dishes_

By

Janet McKenzie Hill

Editor of "The Boston Cooking-School Magazine" Author of "Practical Cooking and Serving"

NEW EDITION WITH ADDITIONAL RECIPES

"_Things which in hungry mortals' eyes find favor._" BYRON

Boston Little, Brown, and Company 1909

_Copyright, 1899, 1903_ BY JANET M. HILL.

Printers S. J. PARKHILL & CO., BOSTON, U. S. A.

TO

MRS. WILLIAM B. SEWALL,

President of the Boston Cooking-School Corporation,

IN GRATEFUL RECOGNITION OF THE OPPORTUNITY

PRESENTED BY HER FOR CONGENIAL WORK IN A

CHOSEN FIELD OF EFFORT, THIS LITTLE BOOK

IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED

BY THE AUTHOR.

PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION.

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THE favor with which the first edition of this little book has been received by those who were interested in the subjects of which it treats, is eminently gratifying to both author and publishers. It has occasioned the purpose to make a second edition of the book, even more complete and helpful than the first.

In making the revision, wherever the text has suggested a new thought that thought has been inserted; under the various headings new recipes have been added, each in its proper place, and the number of illustrations has been increased from thirty-seven to fifty. A more complete table of contents has been presented, and also a list of the illustrations; the alphabetical index has been revised and made especially full and complete.

JANET M. HILL. April 10, 1903.

PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION.

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THERE is positive need of more widespread knowledge of the principles of cookery. Few women know how to cook an egg or boil a potato properly, and the making of the perfect loaf of bread has long been assigned a place among the "lost arts."

By many women cooking is considered, at best, a homely art,--a necessary kind of drudgery; and the composition, if not the consumption, of salads and chafing-dish productions has been restricted, hitherto, chiefly to that half of the race "who cook to please themselves." But, since women have become anxious to compete with men in any and every walk of life, they, too, are desirous of becoming adepts in tossing up an appetizing salad or in stirring a creamy rarebit. And yet neither a pleasing salad, especially if it is to be composed of cooked materials, nor a tempting rarebit can be evolved, save by happy accident, without an accurate knowledge of the fundamental principles that underlie all cookery.

In a book of this nature and scope, the philosophy of heat at different temperatures, as it is applied in cooking, and the more scientific aspects of culinary processes, could not ...

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