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Mrs. Shillaber's Cook-Book.
A PRACTICAL GUIDE FOR HOUSEKEEPERS.
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Extract from Mrs. Partington's Introduction.
"Well, well," said Mrs. Partington, her spectacles beaming with delight as she turned over the leaves of the new cookery book, "I declare it excites my salivation glands even to read the names of these good things. It seems as though the greatest epicac might find something among all these meats and cosmetics to give a jest to appetite.... Now a book like this will come into a house like an oasis in the desert of the great Sahara, and be a quarantine of perpetual peace."
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