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ting the feelings of her purblind old servant; or Margaret Fuller shelling peas? The chief difficulty, I fancy, with women trying recipes is, that they fail and know not why they fail, and so become discouraged, and this is where I hope to step in. But although this is not a cookery book, insomuch as it does not deal chiefly with recipes, I shall yet give a few; but only when they are, or I believe them to be, better than those in general use, or good things little known, or supposed to belong to the domain of a French _chef_, of which I have introduced a good many. Should I succeed in making things that were obscure before clear to a few women, I shall be as proud as was Mme. de Genlis when she boasts in her Memoirs that she has taught six new dishes to a German housewife. Six new dishes! When Brillat-Savarin says: "He who has invented _one_ new dish has done more for the pleasure of mankind than he who has discovered a star." CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. PAGE PRELIMINARY REMARKS 1 CHAPTER II. ON BREAD. Sponge for bread.--One cause of failure.--Why home-made bread often has a hard crust.--On baking.--Ovens.--More reasons why bread may fail to be good.--Light rolls.--Rusks.--Kreuznach horns.--Kringles.--Brioche (Paris Jockey Club recipe).--Soufflee bread.--A novelty 12 CHAPTER III. PASTRY. Why you fail in making good puff paste.--How to succeed.--How to handle it.--To put fruit pies together so that the syrup does not boil out.--Ornamenting fruit pies.--Rissolettes.--Pastry tablets.--Frangipane tartlets.--Rules for ascertaining the heat of your oven 22 CHAPTER IV. WHAT TO HAVE IN YOUR STORE-ROOM. Mushroom powder (recipe).--Stock to keep, or glaze (recipe).--Uses of glaze.--Glazing meats, hams, tongues, etc.--Maitre d'hotel butter (recipe).--Uses of it.--Ravigotte or Montpellier butter (recipe).--Uses of it.--Roux.--Blanc (recipes).--Uses of both.--Brown flour, its uses 28 CHAPTER V. LUNCHEONS. Remarks on what to have for luncheons.--English meat pies.--Windsor pie.--Veal and ham pie.--Chicken pie.--Raised pork pie.--(Recipes).--Ornamenting meat pies.--Galantine (recipe).--Fish in jelly.--Jellied oysters.--A new mayonnai
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