Excerpt from A Key to Cooking: That Will Unlock Many Kitchen Mysteries; Wrought Out and Made Ready for Public UseIt was these failures and this belief which have induced me to republish and enlarge this series of papers, which contain the summing up of all there is to be learned of the theory and practice of good plain cooking, gathered from very many volumes published during the last hundred years.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.