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...froufrou, sets forth many a plain but seasonable and spicy appetizer, many a hearty pièce de résistance. 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...