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Miss Leslie's New Cookery Book
by Leslie, Eliza · Page 5 of 479 · 167,418 words
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of One Dollar and Twenty-five Cents. Those who know how much of the happiness of home depends upon well-cooked viands, neatly served up, will thank the accomplished authoress for this valuable contribution to domestic science." _From the Philadelphia Saturday Evening Gazette._ "Miss Leslie's 'New Receipts for Cooking' is perhaps better known than any similar collection of receipts. The very elegant volume before us, entitled '_Miss Leslie's New Cookery Book_,' is designed as a sequel and continuation to it, and should be its companion in every family, as the receipts are all new, and in no instance the same, even when their titles are similar. It contains directions for plain and fancy cooking, preserving, pickling; and commencing with soups, gives entirely new receipts for every course of an excellent dinner, to the jellies and confectionery of the dessert. Our readers are not strangers to the accuracy and minuteness of Miss Leslie's receipts, as, since the first number of the Gazette, she has contributed to our housekeepers' department. The new receipts in this volume are admirable. Many of them are modified from French sources, though foreign terms and designations are avoided. The publisher has brought it out in an extremely tasteful style, and no family in the world should be without it." _From the Pennsylvania Inquirer._ "Mr. T. B. Peterson has just published '_Miss Leslie's New Cookery Book_.' This will be a truly popular work. Thousands of copies will very soon be disposed of, and other thousands will be needed. It contains directions for cooking, preserving, pickling, and preparing almost every description of dish: also receipts for preparing farina, Indian meal, fancy tea-cakes, marmalades, etc. We know of a no more useful work for families." _From the Public Ledger._ "As every woman, whether wife or maid, should be qualified for the duties of a housekeeper, a work which gives the information which acquaints her with its most important duties, will no doubt be sought after by the fair sex. This work is '_Miss Leslie's New Cookery Book_.' Get it by all means." _From the Boston Evening Traveler._ "We do not claim to
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