The Myrtle Reed Cook Book

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                 The
             Myrtle Reed
              Cook Book


           [Illustration]


         G. P. Putnam's Sons
         New York     London
       The Knickerbocker Press
                1916


     Copyright, 1905, 1906, 1911
                 by
         G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS

           Copyright, 1916
                 by
         G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS

  The Knickerbocker Press, New York




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EXPLANATION


The only excuse the author and publishers have to offer for the
appearance of this book is that, so far as they know, there is no
other like it.




CONTENTS


                                                        PAGE
    The Philosophy of Breakfast                            1

    How to Set the Table                                   9

    The Kitchen Rubaiyat                                  15

    Fruits                                                20

    Cereals                                               39

    Salt Fish                                             58

    Breakfast Meats                                       72

    Substitutes for Meat                                  87

    Eggs                                                  91

    Omelets                                              111

    Quick Breads                                         121

    Raised Breakfast Breads                              147

    Pancakes                                             160

    Coffee Cakes, Doughnuts, and Waffles                 173

    Breakfast Beverages                                  186

    Simple Salads                                        191

    One Hundred Sandwich Fillings                        228

    Luncheon Beverages                                   235

    Eating and Dining                                    241

    Thirty-five Canapes                                  244

    One Hundred Simple Soups                             252

    Fifty Ways to Cook Shell-Fish                        281

    Sixty Ways to Cook Fish                              297

    One Hundred and Fifty Ways to Cook Meat and
      Poultry                                            316

    Twenty Ways to Cook Potatoes                         366

    One Hundred and Fifty Ways to Cook Other
      Vegetables                                         373

    Thirty Simple Sauces                                 423

    One Hundred and Fifty Salads                         431

    Simple Desserts                                      459

    Index                                                531




The Myrtle Reed Cook Book




THE PHILOSOPHY OF BREAKFAST


The breakfast habit is of antique origin. Presumably the primeval man
arose from troubled dreams, in the first gray light of dawn, and set
forth upon devious forest trails, seeking that which he might devour,
while the primeval woman still slumbered in her cave. Nowadays, it is
the lady herself who rises while the day is yet young, slips into a
kimono, and patters out into the kitchen to light the gas flame under
the breakfast food.

In this matter of breaking the fast, each house is law unto itself.
There are some who demand a dinner at seven or eight in the morning,
and others who consider breakfast utterly useless.