The Easiest Way in Housekeeping and Cooking / Adapted to Domestic Use or Study in Classes

AUTHOR OF IN FOREIGN KITCHENS, MRS. HERNDON'S INCOME, PRISONERS OF POVERTY, , SOME PASSAGES IN THE PRACTICE OF DR. MARTHA SCARBOROUGH, WOMEN WAGE-EARNERS, ETC., ETC.
If it were done, when 'tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly.
BOSTON: LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY, 1903.
Copyright, 1893, BY ROBERTS BROTHERS.
University Press: JOHN WILSON AND SON, CAMBRIDGE, U.S.A.
The little book now revised and sent out with some slight additions, remains substantially the same as when first issued in 1880. In the midst of always increasing cookery-books, it has had a firm constituency of friends, especially in the South, where its necessity was first made plain. To enlarge it in any marked degree would violate the original plan, for which the critic will please read the pages headed Introductory, where he or she will find full explanation of the growth and purpose of the book. Whoever desires more receipts and more elaborate forms of preparation must look for their sources in the bibliography at the end, since their introduction in these pages would practically nullify the title, proved true by years of testing at the hands of inexperienced housekeepers, whose warm words have long been very pleasant to the author of The Easiest Way.
NEW YORK, June, 1893.
That room or toleration for another cook-book can exist in the public mind, will be denied at once, with all the vigor to be expected from a people overrun with cook-books, and only anxious to relegate the majority of them to their proper place as trunk-linings and kindling-material. The minority, admirable in plan and execution, and elaborate enough to serve all republican purposes, are surely sufficient for all the needs that have been or may be. With Mrs. Cornelius and Miss Parloa, Marion Harland and Mrs. Whitney, and innumerable other trustworthy authorities, for all every-day purposes, and Mrs. Henderson for such festivity as we may at times desire to make, another word is not only superfluous but absurd; in fact, an outrage on common sense, not for one instant to be justified.