Excerpt from Economy in the Kitchen It is with a feeling of apology that I use the term I so often, but in a work of this kind it is almost impossible to omit this form of expression. In the duties of our household I am not chief coo by any means. My wife is mistress of her kitchen, and in most cases I am but a helper. She has been the prime mover in this work, and we have agreed in everything except in some small details. She insists upon using a dish rag, while I think that such an article should be prohibited by law; she thinks that the harder water boils the hotter it gets, while I do not; but beyond such small differences of Opinion we have worked together harmoniously, and the reader can take it that the term I in the majority of cases is meant to mean we. I might add that I practice what I preach. I can go into a kitchen and cook as complete a dinner as almost any woman. I can make good bread, can vegetables, preserve fruits, make good butter, prepare all kinds of salads, or make mayonnaise dressing, and my little chil dren eat my cooking in preference to their mother's. Such work is my recreation and I try to do it with the same cleanliness and system that I use in making a chemical analysis. And last but not least, I can wash up the dishes and keep the kitchen clean generally. 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.