Practical Cooking And Serving

by Janet McKenzie Hill · 1919 · Doubleday, Page & Company

This book is designed to be something more than a compilation of recipes - though recipes make up a large portion of its contents. Cookery is a necessary art, and an art that is worthy the attention of the most intelligent and cultivated women of the land. How few women realize that the warp and woof of our muscular and nervous systems are woven out of the food we eat, or that food even more than environment makes or mars the individual.

Shelf note

This is the backbone of the shelf: 825 sections, and the archive kept every one of them. Hill opens with chemistry (the five food principles, how heat changes starch and albumen) before she reaches a single recipe, then works through broiling, frying and braising, soups, fish, meats, vegetables, bread, cake, ices and the formal dinner served à la Russe.

The text is the 1919 printing of a book first published in 1902 by Doubleday, Page and Company, and the archive kept many of its photographs of finished dishes, from planked shad to a pyramid of peaches.

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Title page of Practical Cooking And Serving (1919)

Questions about this book

Is the whole of Practical Cooking and Serving on this site?

Yes. All 825 sections the old site published are here, with many of the original photographs and diagrams.

Which edition is it?

The 1919 printing from Doubleday, Page and Company. The copyright notice records 1902 and 1912, the first edition and a revision.

Where should I start?

Hill meant the opening chapters on food principles and the elementary processes of cooking to be read first. If you want recipes straight away, the chafing-dish and salad chapters are self-contained.

Who was Janet McKenzie Hill?

A Boston Cooking School graduate (1892) who founded the Boston Cooking School Magazine in 1896 and wrote more than a dozen cookbooks. She lived from 1852 to 1933.

Mentioned in Is it really public domain? Checking an old book before you copy it, Cooking from a 1900s cookbook: ovens, measures and what to leave alone.

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Practical Cooking And Serving

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