Excerpt from Cookery for the Million: With Useful Hints to Housewives With the close range of this continent there is no fear of a downfall of soot burying the frying-pan or gridiron no foul smoke can insinuate itself beneath the sauce-pan lid into the stew or vegetables with a good stove and ordinary care the housewife can cook surely, cleanly and comfortably. It is cheering to know that the cooking stove 'of this continent is steadily coming into use across the Atlantic. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.