Excerpt from A La Mode Cookery: Up-to-Date Recipes Encouraged by the popularity of my little A-la Mode Series of Cookery Books, I have been per suaded to produce the present volume, and I hope the feature of the illustrations will render the book of special service to many housewives; especially as in the present century, when everything is so decorative, and cookery has become a fine art, it is quite as necessary to have Plates for cookery fashions as for dress, furniture, &c. 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.