The New Hydropathic Cook-Book - With Recipes for Cooking on Hygienic Principles; Containing Also a Philosophical Exposition of the Relations of Food to Health; The Chemical Elements and Proximate Constitution Alimentary Principles; The... #246627

On looking through Miss Beecher's book, it seems to me the evil is much more profusely scattered than the good that the wine and brandy she commends in her cakes, and pies, and pudding. Sauces are better calculated to make men drunkards, than to render them wise in choosing. And I apprehend the world would soon come to a pretty pass, if we should all go to scat tering good and evil about us after what Miss Beecher considers to be the example of Providence!