Excerpt from Pot-Luck or the British Home Cookery Book; Over a Thousand Recipes From Old Family Ms. Books This is not the ordinary conventional cookery book, affording instructions how to dress, cook, and serve every variety of joint, fish, vegetable, etc., etc., etc. I take for granted that the reader is already acquainted with ordinary means and methods, and is versed in the preparation of simple food. To be a good plain cook always appears to me a contradiction in terms: because, if a per son's treatment of plain dishes is good, she should be equally good at more elaborate ones. The same amount of application will serve for both. To make plain dishes palatable is, indeed, the highest test to which a woman can be put. The culinary skill demanded in these pages is of an everyday, common-sense character, such as any housewife, old or young, may exercise with pleasure. For these are chiefly specimens of the good plain cooking which was done by our mothers, and grandmothers, and great-grandmothers - the old home cookery before tinned things and preservatives were invented. This book is, in its way, unique. 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.