Cookbooks and Cooking
RECIPES: Batters, Biscuits and Bread 60 Bread 65 Sauces and Milk Soups 66 Eggs 69 Fruit 72 Vegetables 74 Salads 80 Macaroni 85 Cheese 86 Beverages 87 Soups 89 Fish 94 Meat 96 Poultry 104 Hot Puddings 109 Plain Sauces 115 Pastry 121 Miscellaneous 122
The knowledge of food values and their relation to the body will be of little use for practical purposes unless combined with the knowledge of how the various foods should be pr...
5. Chapter 5It has been stated that "a quart of milk, three-quarters of a pound of moderately lean beef, and five ounces of wheat flour contain about the same amount of nutritive material;"...
8. Chapter 8The idea of starchy foods is usually connected with such substances as laundry starch, cornstarch, arrow root, etc. These are, of course, more concentrated forms of starch than...
6. Chapter 6Animal foods contain nutritive matter in a concentrated form, and being chemically similar to the composition of the body is doubtless the reason why they assimilate more readil...
2. Chapter 2In order to understand the relation of food to the sustenance and repairing of the body, it will be necessary to learn, first, of what the body is composed, and the correspondin...
3. Chapter 3"Nitrogenous extractives" of flesh, _i.e._, of meats and fish. These include kreatin and allied compounds, and are the chief ingredients of beef tea and most meat extracts. Amid...
9. Chapter 9Fruits are composed largely of water, with starches, a vegetable jelly, pectin, cellulose and organic acids. The most important acids in fruit are citric, malic and tartaric. Ci...
7. Chapter 7Fats and oils contain three elements--carbon, oxygen and hydrogen. About one-fifth of the body is composed of fat. Before death results from starvation 90 per cent. of the body...
4. Chapter 4It is not within the scope of this book to deal with the science of nutrition; but a few general principles may be given which concern the effect upon the system of the differen...
1. Chapter 1RECIPES: Batters, Biscuits and Bread 60 Bread 65 Sauces and Milk Soups 66 Eggs 69 Fruit 72 Vegetables 74 Salads 80 Macaroni 85 Cheese 86 Beverages 87 Soups 89 Fish 94 Meat 96 Po...