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O MUCH depends upon good cooking, as regards the welfare of a nation, the health of its people and their happiness in their homes, and so much harm is done by cooking which is either simply bad, or else clever but turned to wrong use, that the time must certainly come when this important science will be taught to children of all classes. As long as the lives of men, women and children depend upon food, the right preparation of food is a subject which is well worthy of anyone's serious study, and a queen is none the worse a queen if she can cook food that would not make her people ill.

To all good husbands we dedicate this book, in the hope that their wives may profit by the humble lessons taught therein.