3536. Nearly every family in our Republic has, or might have, the means of living very comfortably; if nothing was wasted, and all food was properly cooked, good tables would abound.
3537. In my "New Cook Book" these subjects are so fully treated that little can be added.
3538. Still a few "Choice Receipts" on Cookery will be found in this volume, at page [319] and on. I shall add such other directions in this chapter as seem necessary to complete the system: and first of the staff of life—bread.
3539. Bread.—To make good bread, or to understand the process of making it, is the duty of every woman; indeed, an art that should never be neglected in the education of a lady.
3540. The Lady derives her title from "dividing or distributing bread:" the more perfect the bread the more noble the lady.