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Title: Good Things to Eat as Suggested by Rufus
A Collection of Practical Recipes for Preparing Meats,
Game, Fowl, Fish, Puddings, Pastries, Etc.

Author: Rufus Estes

Release Date: May 22, 2006 [EBook #18435]

Language: English

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GOOD THINGS TO EAT

AS

SUGGESTED BY RUFUS

A COLLECTION OF PRACTICAL RECIPES FOR

PREPARING MEATS, GAME, FOWL, FISH,

PUDDINGS, PASTRIES, ETC.

BY

RUFUS ESTES

FORMERLY OF THE PULLMAN COMPANY PRIVATE CAR SERVICE, AND PRESENT
CHEF OF THE SUBSIDIARY COMPANIES OF THE UNITED STATES
STEEL CORPORATIONS IN CHICAGO

[Illustration]

CHICAGO
PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR
1911

Copyrighted 1911
BY RUFUS ESTES, CHICAGO

FOREWORD

That the average parent is blind to the faults of its offspring is a
fact so obvious that in attempting to prove or controvert it time and
logic are both wasted. Ill temper in a child is, alas! too often
mistaken for an indication of genius; and impudence is sometimes
regarded as a sign of precocity. The author, however, has honestly
striven to avoid this common prejudice. This book, the child of his
brain, and experience, extending over a long period of time and varying
environment, he frankly admits is not without its faults--is far from
perfect; but he is satisfied that, notwithstanding its apparent
shortcomings, it will serve in a humble way some useful purpose.

The recipes given in the following pages represent the labor of years.
Their worth has been demonstrated, not experimentally, but by actual
tests, day by day and month by month, under dissimilar, and, in many
instances, not too favorable conditions.

One of the pleasures in life