This book is the result of many years of conscientious effort to produce
a work which would be worthy of the title—The Blue Book of the Culinary
Art.
The old Colonial homes of Maryland and Virginia, long famous for their
“Southern Cooking,” have yielded most of the recipes. Graduates of
leading Schools of Domestic Science have thoroughly tested and in some
instances revised the recipes, so that in the new edition we offer the
Perfect Cook Book. The following pages are selected at random: