Kitchenette Cookery

Cooking well in a wee kitchen, 1917 — the first manual for the apartment dweller with three shelves, a two-burner stove and company coming.

This site is the complete 1917 book Kitchenette Cookery, page by page as originally printed — period spelling, remedies and opinions included. About this edition →

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The Book

1 page

Fitting Shelves to Space And

3 pages

The Pots, Pans, and Containers

1 page

The First Bill of Groceries

2 pages

Counting Costs

1 page

Breakfast on a Time Limit

1 page

Luncheons at Home and by Box

3 pages

Dinners for Self and Friends

1 page

High-Pressure Dinners

3 pages

Experiments Tried on Friends

2 pages

A Bite to Eat at Bedtime

1 page

Half-A-Can Recipes

4 pages

Highlights

Half-A-Can Recipes

ONE of the difficulties of using canned goods in cooking for one or two is that only part of a can can be eaten at one time, and…

Dinners for Self and Friends

We shall have to admit that the business woman is at a disadvantage when it comes to cooking dinners - for there is no gainsaying…

High-Pressure Dinners

It was quarter past one when we came in and took off our wraps and we had to leave the house by quarter past two in order to…

The First Bill of Groceries

THE first bill of groceries is not such an enormous one, after all, for our kitchenette supply space is almost microscopic as…

Counting Costs

WHEN I started out to fit up this kitchenette I had a very vague idea as to how much it would cost, for the paper houses I had…

Foreword

As the artist presents his finished picture, mounted or framed so that his friends may drink in its beauty without the odor of…

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