Common-Sense Papers on Cookery

of domestic servants—the remedy lies with themselves. A helpless mistress too often makes helpless servants. It is in the hope of curing some of this wide-spread helplessness amongst ladies that the following papers have been written. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CONTENTS. ------- PAGE I. —Uses and Abuses of a Frying-Pan 9 II. —Kitchen Economy 22 III. —Little Extravagancies of the Table 32 IV. —Cold Leg of Mutton 43 V. —How to make Dishes look nice 56 VI. —Breakfast Dishes 68 VII. —How to give a nice little Dinner 79 VIII. —How to give a nice little Supper 93 IX. —Spring Dishes 104 X. —Savoury Summer Dishes 114 XI. —Salads, and how to make them 127 XII. —Picnic Dainties 138 XIII. —Cooling Drinks 149 XIV. —Game and Gravy (including How to 160 Cook Hare) XV. —Food for Cold Weather 182 XVI. —Christmas Dinners (including 191 Christmas Cheer) XVII. —Turtle Soup 209 XVIII. —Fish Dinners 221 XIX. —Wedding Breakfasts 233 XX. —Food for Invalids 241 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ COMMON-SENSE PAPERS ON COOKERY. ------- I.—THE USES AND ABUSES OF A FRYING-PAN. “We had such an awful time of it with Mary Ann!” Probably, never have the domestic trials and difficulties of young housekeepers been summed up in fewer or more expressive words. However, the more we look into the world, the more we find it to be the case that we make our Mary Anns, and not our Mary Anns us. It is a good old saying that the master makes the man; equally true is it that the mistress makes the maid. Let each of our readers pause for an instant, and look round mentally among his relations and friends with whom he is in the habit of dining. Each one, probably, has had many changes of servants, yet there are some houses where the dinner is invariably good, others where it is equally invariably bad. Who has not, on entering a house where he expects to dine, been greeted at the door with a whiff of the smell of the cooking, from which whiff he could pretty well determine in his own mind the style of