A Poetical Cook-Book

Transcriber’s Note


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.”

“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:
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.

“What’s under this cover? For cookery’s a secret.”—Moore.