The Twentieth Century Home Cook Book

Practical recipes and household wisdom from 1906 — when the icebox was high technology and dinner had nine courses.

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SOUP DIGESTER.
SOUP DIGESTER.

added to indefinitely. With those we have mentioned almost any dish may be prepared, except that of meat roasted before a fire. X. Chemistry of the Kitchen.

COOKING is simply change produced chemically through heat. Condiments are for giving, or adding, zest to flavors. The chemistry of bread-making is to cause it to rise "light," through the action of carbonic acid gas, which is done by adding yeast, or the combination of an alkali and an acid. Soup-making consists in extracting the nutritious constituents of meat by long-continued and slow boiling.

MORTARS AND PESTLES.
MORTARS AND PESTLES.
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