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...froufrou, sets forth many a plain but seasonable and spicy appetizer, many a hearty pi�ce de r�sistance. Like its author's conversation these recipes are blunt but pointed, dipped in the salty wit of good sense. Unusual among politicians. Dr. Browne says what he thinks; unique among cookbook authors, he gives many a flat decision on moot questions of food & drink. "Beaten biscuits are biscuits horribly beaten before they are cooked and may be used as golf-balls afterward.'' Of a Clover Club cocktail he says, "It's an awful mixture"; but tells how to make...
Incunabula are literally "cradle-books," published in the infancy of printing. First and most famed of Incunabula are the Gutenberg Bibles, printed in and after 1456. A Gutenberg Bible is in Dr. Vollbehr's collection; there are 3,000 other items, including the first cookbook, the first book on music, the first on surgery, etc.. etc. Also, there is a book bound in the skin of a Spanish Jew persecuted for religious heresy, and many another curio...
...Idea: Foreign sophistication in a U. S. cookbook.* The Motive: To surprise U. S. cooks with the knowledge that a few left-over green peppers may be transformed into either Mexican frijoles or Armenian dolmas. The Story: Mrs. Ruth A. Jeremiah Gottfried has assembled in staccato sentences 128 recipes: "The booty that one casual observer in foreign kitchens found practical to bring home and too tempting to leave behind." Each recipe has a catch-eye head- ing?some with snap. Examples: "Pilaf: An Extinct Soup"; "Carme-leis: Swoons in Cream"; "Silde-boller: Hamburger with Fins." Eyes which have been caught...
...build a community house and library, the members of the Women's Club of Hagerman, N. M., have issued and are selling a cookbook. Various writer-men* have contributed remarks. Most of the recipes, evolved by women, are dependable. The First Lady explains as follows a coffee souffle which the President allegedly enjoys: "Mix one and one-half cups coffee, one tablespoon gelatine, one-third cup granulated sugar and-one-half cup milk. "Heat in a double boiler, add yolks of three eggs slightly beaten and mix with one-third cup granulated sugar and one-fourth teaspoon salt. Cook...
...subscribe to Good Housekeeping I can get a cookbook free, which is at least sensible although of course I have a cook book ! But what do you suppose I can get with the solemn Literary Digest? They offer me, perhaps as an antidote, the "complete works of O'Henry in one volume!" ("Free! Completely free...