The Laurel Health Cookery

The Laurel Health Cookery is a cookbook by Evora Bucknum Perkins. It provides a collection of vegetarian recipes and suggestions for hygienic cooking for home chefs to enjoy. Excerpt: “When, in spite of all precautions, something burns on, plunge the vessel without ceremony into a pail or pan of cold water for a moment, empty the contents immediately into another kettle, add boiling water and return to the fire to finish cooking. Badly scorched foods often lose all the scorched flavor by this treatment.”