PREFACE.
LITTLE, if any, originality is claimed for the
following recipes, most of which have appeared in
the Cookery columns of the Queen during the
last eight or nine years, from whence they have
been collected at the request of many readers of
the Queen, to save reference to back numbers not
always within reach. Additional recipes have, how-
ever, been given, to bring this little work as much
up to date as possible; but all these, like the
previous ones, have been carefully tested, and are
(as I know from practical experience) well within
the capacity of any ordinary “good plain cook,”
gifted with fair intelligence and a little goodwill.
I desire also to take this opportunity of acknow-
ledging my indebtedness to the various authors of
standard foreign cookery books, and also to offer
my grateful thanks to Mrs. A. B. Marshall, and
several other well-known chefs, whose kindness
has so materially helped and rendered possible my
work in these last years.
S. BEATTY-POWNALL.
June, 1904.