The Twentieth Century Home Cook Book

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

Chafing Dish Recipes

9 recipes in this part of 20th Century Cook Book.

The Nursery and Sick-Room

TABLE OF FOODS AND TIME OF DIGESTION

LESCENTS-RECIPES AND DIRECTIONS

To Preserve Health and Save Doctors' Bills

I. To Preserve Health and Save Doctors' Bills. THE preservation of health is of far greater importance than to dose a man after he is sick…

Heed the Stomach

" What is one man's meat is another man's poison," is an old saying, and a true one. If every person would study his own individual powers…

Conform to Nature

Dean Nowell, although he may have blazed the way for red noses, did not grow strong by drinking ale. The Rajpoots who slay infants from…

First Principles

A certain Kentucky man-and Kentucky men live much in the open air-minded the silent monitor of the stomach. He was at a first-rate hotel…

Gentle Firmness

ALL who undertake the care of children, or who have the care of the sick, should cultivate the virtue of patience, soft speech and gentle…

Feeding the Infant

The mother should be sure that her own milk is not made unwholesome to the child by worry or over-work, and that the milk of the cow or…

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