The Golden Age Cook Book
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The work is a vegetarian cookbook composed of practical recipes and guidance, produced in the late 19th century. It aims to support individuals adopting a bloodless diet by providing instructions for a variety of plant-based dishes. The text emphasizes the ethical and moral considerations of vegetarianism, reflecting the author's advocacy for compassion towards animals and the health benefits associated with a plant-based diet. The introduction includes a dedication and preface that clarify the moral motives behind vegetarian practices, aligning with contemporary ethical debates of the period. The book presents recipes and nutritional advice oriented toward promoting humane eating habits during the late Victorian era, an epoch characterised by increasing interest in moral reform and dietary reform movements. Its content and tone are consistent with the period’s emphasis on ethical living and the moral implications of diet and consumption.
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Inconsistent spellings (especially in the table of contents ) have been retained as in the original. Corrections of spelling and punctuation are marked like this in the text. The original text appears when hovering the cursor over the marked text. THE Golden Age COOK BOOK. HENRIETTA LATHAM DWIGHT. New York : THE ALLIANCE PUBLISHING COMPANY, “Life” Building , 1898. Copyrighted, 1898, by Henrietta Latham Dwight . PRESS OF THE PLIMPTON MFG. CO., HARTFORD, CONN. Dedication. TO ALL WHO ARE STRIVING TO FOLLOW THE GOLDEN RULE, “TO DO UNTO OTHERS AS THEY WOULD HAVE OTHERS DO UNTO THEM,” AND THUS EXPRESS IN THEIR EVERY-DAY LIFE THE CHRIST IDEAL WRITTEN WITHIN, IN THEIR OWN SOULS, THIS BOOK IS Affectionately Inscribed. And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat. And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so. —Genesis i., 29, 30. Thou shalt not kill. —Exodus xx., 13. For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity. All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again. Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth? —Ecclesiastes iii., 19, 20, 21. He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man. —Isaiah lxvi., 3. Then said Daniel to Melzar [the steward], whom the prince of the eunuchs had set over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah: Prove thy servants, I beseech thee, ten days; and let them give us pulse to eat, and water to drink. Then let our countenances be looked upon before thee, and the countenance of the children that eat of the portion of the king's meat: and as thou seest, deal with thy servants. So he consented to them in this matter, and proved them ten days. And at the end…
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