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The Project Gutenberg EBook of A Poetical Cook-Book, by Maria J. Moss This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: A Poetical Cook-Book Author: Maria J. Moss Release Date: May 28, 2008 [EBook #25631] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A POETICAL COOK-BOOK *** Produced by Julia Miller and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from scans of public domain material produced by Microsoft for their Live Search Books site.) Transcriber's Note The original text used both symbol and numbered footnote markers. This text maintains the distinction. Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. A list of corrections is found at the end of the text along with a list of inconsistently spelled words. [Decorative illustration] We may live without poetry, music, and art; We may live without conscience and live without heart; We may live without friends; we may live without books; But civilized man cannot live without _cooks_. He may live without books--what is knowledge but grieving? He may live without hope--what is hope but deceiving? He may live without love--what is passion but pining? But where is the man who can live without _dining_? OWEN MEREDITH'S "LUCILE." [Decorative illustration] A POETICAL COOK-BOOK. BY [Illustration: Author's initials] "I REQUEST you will prepare To your own taste the bill of fare; At present, if to judge I'm able, The finest works are of the table. I should prefer the cook just now To Rubens or to Gerard Dow." PHILADELPHIA: [Colophon] CAXTON PRESS OF C. SHERMAN, SON & CO. 1864. Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1864, BY MARIA J. MOSS, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. DEDICATION. "What's under this cover? For cookery's a secret."--MOORE. When I wrote the following pages, some years back at Oak Lodge, as
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