Excerpt from A Practical Cook and Text Book for General Use: The Fat of the Land and How to Live on It; Special Chapters on Nuts and Vegetable Oils, and How to Use Them in Cooking; Milk; Bakeries; Feeding Infants, and Various Other Subjects Relating to the Food Problem I have personally tested, and experimented in new directions until it seems a very simple thing to exercise one's ingenuity and create new and artistic dishes, both appetizing and healthful, from the simplest materials. If the product of this labor seems disjointed and some what irregular in arrangement do not attribute it to dis orderly habits, and class me with the ancient and much abused blue stocking, but rather to a lack of time for continuous work upon any one subject. Not to increase the list of cook books, chapters on various subjects all bearing upon the food question form the bulk of this work, and will be of far more value to the reader than elaborate cookery. To be a health and dietetic reformer in the early days of this movement meant much sacrifice and often personal abuse. We were all pioneers then, mostly enrolled on the chronic invalid list, many of us with one foot in the grave. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.