Excerpt from The Home Cook Book: Compiled From Recipes Contributed by Ladies of Chicago and Other Cities and Towns; Originally Published for the Benefit of the Home for the Friendless, Chicago
Good diet, with wisdom, best comforteth man. - Thomas Tusser.
Sir Thomas Browne has quaintly observed, that at some time or other we have all been on our own trenchers; and if the present rendering of science be true in the relation of matter to mind, it may be a subject of no slight importance how the psychological units that go to build up our brain and nerve forces are set before us, and how our dinners are cooked may be a more momentous question than who is to be the next President.
With all supplied advice upon this subject, there are two qualities which have been seldom attained in any treatise hitherto published upon this science, viz: the art of uniting plain, simple and practical methods in the preparation of food, with that finish and perfection of detail, and that delicate blending of material, which are products of a refined and exquisite perception, and a delicate and sensitive taste. In short, that "gumption," by which the woman who possesses the genius for housekeeping graces her table daily with viands that in her skillful hands become a "perpetual feast of delights."
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