The Hygienic Cook Book.
By Roswell F. Cottrell
EVERY family should have one. It will be a great help to those who wish to adopt the most healthful diet. And who does not? It is more than folly to choose to live upon a diet that is constantly undermining health and preparing the system to suddenly fall under the power of disease. It is better to deny perverted appetite, and learn to relish the most healthful food. While folly follows the fashion, wisdom finds a better way. The Cook Book recommends the most healthy food, and gives instructions how to prepare it. It should not be necessary to advise people to “choose the best,” yet they are slow to make such a choice. And for the benefit of those who are beginners in the health reform, and should make a gradual change, the “progressive” department is added, embracing some articles of food that are not strictly hygienic—not the best. It is not intended that they should always remain in this department; but that they should progress till they attain to the best. Yet many who have been supposed to be staunch reformers for years show a decided preference still for this part of the book. They pass by that which has the first place as the very best, and mark their progress as we used to in the spelling book of olden time, by getting over “beyond the pictures.” If this is a mark of progress, would it not be better in the future editions of the book to put the progressive department in the forepart of the book? Those who would adopt the reform should have the book. If you would abandon unhealthy articles of food, and, at the same time, not suffer for the want of something to supply their place, get the book, and learn to provide a great variety of the most delicious, as well as most healthful, food. R. F. COTTRELL.