My Mother's Cook Book - Compiled by Ladies of St. Louis, and Sold for the Benefit of the Women's Christian Home #250791

This book will render Divorce Courts an expensive luxury, instead of a social necessity. It is the housekeeper's Magna Charta. Her Emancipation Proclamation. It is the first eloquent muttering of the domestic revolution by which Ethiopia and Hibernia will be hurled from their throne, the Saxon race regain its supremacy, and those terrible kitchen mandates issued by Bridget and Dinah, before which the young wife was wont to tremble and turn pale, will be as powerless as the Pope's bull against the comet. The recipes gathered into this priceless volume have been sent from all parts of the known world; several even from New Jersey. Many delicacies were expected from the centre of Africa, by the courtesy of Stanley, but these have been unavoidably detained. King Calico, remem bering gratefully the hospitality of the Future Great, has sent a rare and valuable recipe of his grandfather's, of a delicious preparation of cold missionary and queen olives, while an amiable and almond-eyed celestial sends a recipe for the cooking of a common and inexpensive domestic rodent. But these delicacies are withheld out of deference to venerable prejudices.