The Farm Cook and Rule Book #263098

In rural districts, even in this day and age, homemakers need to know how to prepare foods to cater to the appetite of: the sick. A knowledge of old-fashioned beauty secrets, those rules which made pink-and-white complexions long ago, is sought by farm girls. Baking day is not a tradition. Saturday's work does not end until the cupboards are supplied with delectable pies, crisply browned loaves of bread, jars of sugary cookies and prettily iced cakes — all of the homemade variety. More than once a week the fragrance of spices and browning batters is in the air.