Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches

The Project Gutenberg eBook of Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org. If you are not located in the United States, you will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this eBook. Title: Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches Author: Eliza Leslie Release date: January 1, 2006 [eBook #9624] Most recently updated: January 2, 2021 Language: English Other information and formats: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/9624 Credits: Produced by Digital & Multimedia Center, Michigan State University Libraries; Steve Schulze, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. *** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DIRECTIONS FOR COOKERY, IN ITS VARIOUS BRANCHES *** Produced by Digital & Multimedia Center, Michigan State University Libraries; Steve Schulze, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. DIRECTIONS FOR COOKERY, IN ITS VARIOUS BRANCHES. BY MISS LESLIE. TENTH EDITION, WITH IMPROVEMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY RECEIPTS. 1840. PREFACE The success of her little book entitled "Seventy-five Receipts in Cakes, Pastry, and Sweetmeats." has encouraged the author to attempt a larger and more miscellaneous work on the subject of cookery, comprising as far as practicable whatever is most useful in its various departments; and particularly adapted to the domestic economy of her own country. Designing it as a manual of American housewifery, she has avoided the insertion of any dishes whose ingredients cannot be procured on our side of the Atlantic, and which require for their preparation utensils that are rarely found except in Europe. Also, she has omitted every thing which may not, by the generality of tastes, be considered good of its kind, and well worth the trouble and cost of preparing. The author has spared no pains in collecting and arranging, perhaps the greatest number of practical and original receipts that have ever appeared in a similar work; flattering herself