Cooking for Two

A handbook for two at table, 1909 — Janet MacKenzie Hill scales the whole art of cookery down to the newlywed kitchen.

A Talk on Food

4 pages in this part of Cooking for Two.

A Talk on Food

IN the morning you work about the house, putting it in order, or you work in the garden with your flowers, or you go to market. Your…

A Talk on Food: Body

Air is composed of two invisible gases, oxygen and nitrogen; when carbon is ignited, the oxygen from the air unites with it rapidly, giving…

A Talk on Food: Proteids

Now we wish to look more closely at these proximate principles. Let us begin with the most important and the most expensive, the proteids…

A Talk on Food: Sugar

Starch Group Cane Sugar Group Grape Sugar Group C6 H10 O5 C12 H22 O11 C6 H12 O6 Starch Cane Sugar Grape Sugar Dextrin Malt Sugar Fruit…

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