LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 1 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. ! ®{ptp+ ..1: i §xtpjri$i f 0 I Shelf\.M.4.r14. I | UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. / / THE w Kentucky Home Kook Book Compiled by the Ladies of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Maysville, Ky. "Civilized man cannot do without cooks." — Lucile. " Further, as man is known by feeding From brutes, so men from men, in breeding Are still distinguish'd as they eat; And raw in manners raw in meat. Look at the polished nations, hight The civilized — the most polite Is that which bears the praise of nations For dressing eggs two hundred fashions; Whereas at savage feeders look — The less refined the less they cook."— Hood. NASHVILLE, TENN. : SOUTHERN METHODIST PUBLISHING HOUSE. 1884. Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1SS4, By The Ladies of the M. E. Church:, South, Maysyille, Ky., in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. PREFACE. The question of food is probably of more importance to man's ■welfare and . happiness than any other purely secular subject; upon it depends not only his physical and mental well-being, but morality, the aesthetic faculty, and all of the higher emotions of the mind; for all of these are conditioned by alimentary influences. '•'Bad dinners go hand in hand with total depravity, while a well-fed man is already half saved." Yet it has ever been the habit with the learned world to classify cooking among the ignoble crafts. It is only of late that its consideration has been transferred from the un- tutored servant to the domain of science; and as intelligence more and more recognizes the necessity of accurate practical knowledge in this direction, we may confidently expect to see a like increase of interest and skill in the culinary art. To the furtherance of this knowledge we add The New Kentucky Home Cook Book, not, certainly, as a didactic treatise, but a collection of choice receipts, and we believe, to such as put them into practical use, teeming with good things. The ladies of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, of Mays- ville, Ky., for the purpose of raising means to build a parsonage, undertook the laborious task of compiling this volume in the autumn of 1883 ; but the collection of material has not been confined to any denomination, and we take great pleasure in acknowledging the valuable contributions of many ladies outside of our Church. (See List of Contributors.) The aim throughout has been to make such a collection from the experience of representative housekeepers as would accurately illus- trate home life in Kentucky under the new regime, and to give a faithful presentation of the cooking and service — in a word, of the whole routine of entertaining as practiced in Kentucky — in such clear and simple language as would enable those who feel the need of such help to follow its directions successfully. The receipts we present our readers are not the formulas of book- makers, but the tried and approved precepts of those who have used (3) 4 Preface.

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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS [illustration: Library of Congress cataloging] | UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. / / THE The New Kentucky Home Cook Book Compiled by the Ladies of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Maysville, Ky. "Civilized man cannot do without cooks." — Lucile. " Further, as man is known by feeding From brutes, so men from men, in breeding Are still distinguish'd as they eat; And raw in manners raw in meat. Look at the polished nations, hight The civilized — the most polite Is that which bears the praise of nations For dressing eggs two hundred fashions; Whereas at savage feeders look — The less refined the less they cook."— Hood. NASHVILLE, TENN. : SOUTHERN METHODIST PUBLISHING HOUSE. Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1884, By The Ladies of the M. E. Church:, South, Maysyille, Ky., in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. PREFACE. The question of food is probably of more importance to man's ■welfare and . happiness than any other purely secular subject; upon it depends not only his physical and mental well-being, but morality, the aesthetic faculty, and all of the higher emotions of the mind; for all of these are conditioned by alimentary influences. '•'Bad dinners go hand in hand with total depravity, while a well-fed man is already half saved." Yet it has ever been the habit with the learned world to classify cooking among the ignoble crafts. It is only of late that its consideration has been transferred from the untutored servant to the domain of science; and as intelligence more and more recognizes the necessity of accurate practical knowledge in this direction, we may confidently expect to see a like increase of interest and skill in the culinary art. To the furtherance of this knowledge we add The New Kentucky Home Cook Book, not, certainly, as a didactic treatise, but a collection of choice receipts, and we believe, to such as put them into practical use, teeming with good things. The ladies of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, of Maysville, Ky., for the purpose of raising means to build a parsonage, undertook the laborious task of compiling this volume in the autumn of 1883 ; but the collection of material has not been confined to any denomination, and we take great pleasure in acknowledging the valuable contributions of many ladies outside of our Church. (See List of Contributors.) The aim throughout has been to make such a collection from the experience of representative housekeepers as would accurately illustrate home life in Kentucky under the new regime, and to give a faithful presentation of the cooking and service — in a word, of the whole routine of entertaining as practiced in Kentucky — in such clear and simple language as would enable those who feel the need of such help to follow its directions successfully. The receipts we present our readers are not the formulas of bookmakers, but the tried and approved precepts of those who have used (3) Preface.

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