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“Who ever heard of pecans in soup,” you may ask, “or pecan fritters, or pecan conserves, or pecan drinks”?

Judging by the hundreds of recipes received for these and other pecan foods of an unexpected type, there must be many housewives who have not only heard of them, but who favor them strongly.

From the great number of the most unusual pecan recipes received—which are not readily classified under the foregoing chapters—we have selected a few of those which after thorough test- ing and re-checking seem to most merit a place in such a recipe book as this.

They suggest that different dish, which com-