The Cook Book of Left-Overs

What to do with left-over everything, 1911 — beef to cake, four hundred ways to use what the last meal left behind.

About the Book

1911Published
Helen Carroll Clarke and Phoebe Deyo RulonAuthor
348Recipes

Helen Carroll Clarke of Pratt Institute and Phoebe Deyo Rulon of Bellevue Hospital wrote The Cook Book of Left-Overs (Harper & Brothers, © 1911) on a single premise: the left-over is the starting point. Each chapter takes one — beef, poultry, fish, bread, even cake — and gives it four hundred second lives among them.

This edition is built from a dual-engine reading of the original pages, checked against the scans.

This site reproduces the complete text of the original 1911 edition, digitized page by page from the original printing. The book is in the public domain.

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