COOKERY FOR EVERY HOUSEHOLD

Southland Times, Issue 17697, 8 July 1914, Page 2

COOKERY FOR EVERY HOUSEHOLD

.1 WONDERFUL BOOK. (From our Lady Correspondent,} • LONDON, May 23. Not every cookery book come across in England does a practical New Zealander find it in her heart to recommend but one .iust issued, ‘‘Cooker)' lor Every Household.” by Florence 11. Jack, is surely one of the most remarkable extent, the doughty Mrs Beeton not excluded, For here are over seven hundred paves of recipes and instructions — each page with two columns —with menus to suit all purses, with hundreds of useful illustrations and with advice on every subject that comes into the housewife’s many-sided ken. Compiled by one. of the most eminent women cookery teachers in the United Kingdom, the correctness and excellence of every recipe vouched for by her. will) French and English names, the whole. well bound, printed and indexed is only three shillings and sixpence. Want of interest want of dantiness. lack of discriminating taste, and, above all, a desire to save trouble on the part of the average Britsh cook, are at the root of the comparative inadequacy of English cooking thinks the writer who was principal for many years of the fine School of Domestic Arts that Edinburgh boasts. Before each department—fish, soups, .sweets, etc. —there is a helpful carefully prepared preface dealing with that department in general, tlm. difliculiies likely to arise and how to meet them. Altogt?ll l er a wonderful tome.