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Excerpt from The House-Keeper's Guide and Everybody's Handbook: Containing Over Five Hundred New and Valuable Recipes So rapid has been the sale of this truly valuable little book, that tho first edition of 3,000 copies was hardly out of press before it new one was called for to supply the increasing demands coming in from every quarter. It has been thoroughly revised, improved, and considerably enlarged since its first appearance. Although the Authors have spent several years in collecting its material from various sources, in experimenting upon and improving recipes, and arranging them for publication, it is now gotten up and designed especially for the benefit of Disabled Soldiers arid Soldiers' Widows; through whose agency it is being sold, and to whom we give more than one-half the net profits. Its novelty, of Combining such a multiplicity of practical recipes, and so much varied and useful information upon nearly all matters pertaining to housekeeping and domestic economy, commends it to all classes and conditions in society. In addition to several valuable ones of our own, we have added a large number of new ones, never before made public; for some of which we have paid sums ranging from $10 up to $50, expressly for our book- making it the most valuable collection of family receipts ever compiled in one volume. At least one hundred can be selected from the entire work, any one of which would be worth its price to any family; while some of them are worth ten times that amount. The Medical Department contains information of the most vital importance to every family in the land, while no economical housewife would he without the knowledge embraced in the Culinary Department, after having once been in its possession, for twice the consideration demanded for the book. Its price, compared with that of Other publications, may seem high; but when viewed in the light of its intrinsic value, and particularly with reference to the fact that we have given to the public several very important recipes of our own, from which we were manufacturing and selling articles of great value, at large profits, it is not. The pages are large and the type small; and being solidly set, the book contains as much reading matter as is ordinarily included in two or three hundred pages. While the directions given in each receipt are sufficiently explicit for the comprehension of all, we have aimed at conciseness and brevity, in order to condense a large amount of information in as small a compass as is possible. By this means we are enabled to put the book to the Soldier at such a price as will yield him a large profit, and remunerate him for his trouble; besides, in a measure, compensating him for his past services in behalf of his country. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.