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The Healthy Life Cook Book
by
Florence Daniel
Second Edition
1915
Preface
This little book has been compiled by special and repeated request.Otherwise, I should have hesitated to add to the already existing numberof vegetarian cookery books. It is not addressed to the professional cook,but to those who find themselves, as I did, confronted with the necessityof manufacturing economical vegetarian dishes without any previousexperience of cooking. An experienced cook will doubtless find many of thedetailed instructions superfluous.
The original idea was to compile a cookery book for those vegetarians whoare non-users of milk and eggs. But as this would have curtailed thebook's usefulness, especially to vegetarian beginners, the project wasabandoned. At the same time, non-users of milk and eggs will find thattheir interests have been especially considered in very many of therecipes.
All the recipes have been well tested. Many of them I evolved myself afterrepeated experiments. Others I obtained from friends. But all of them areused in my own little household. So that if any reader experiencesdifficulty in obtaining the expected results, if she will write to me, at3, Tudor Street, London, E.C., and enclose a stamped envelope for reply, Ishall be glad to give any assistance in my power.
I desire to record my gratitude here to the friends who have sent merecipes; to the graduate of the Victoria School of Cookery, who assistedme with much good advice; to Cassell's large Dictionary of Cookery, fromwhich I gathered many useful hints; to the Herald of Health, which firstpublished recipes for the Agar-agar Jellies and Wallace Cheese; and to E.and B. May's Cookery Book, from whence emanates the idea of jam withoutsugar. Lastly, I would thank Mrs. Hume, of "Loughtonhurst," Bournemouth,with whom I have spent several pleasant holidays, and who kindly placedher menus at my disposal.
Preface to Second Edition
This little cookery book was originally published for that "straiter" sectof food-reformers who abstain from the use of salt, yeast, etc. But, owingto repeated requests from ordinary vegetarians, who find the book useful,I am now including recipes for yeast bread, cheese dishes, nutmeat dishes,etc. I have put all these in the chapter entitled "Extra Recipes." To goto the opposite extreme there is a short chapter for "unfired feeders."Other new recipes have also been added.
The note re Salads has been borrowed from E.J. Saxon, and the Vegetable
Stew in Casserole Cookery from R. & M. Goring, in The Healthy Life.
Everyday Fitness
You want food you can eat every day, knowing that it is bringing younearer and nearer to real Fitness, the Fitness which lasts all day, andsurvives even Sunday or a Summer Holiday.
'P.R.' Foods are Everyday Foods. They take the place of white bread, andwhite flour biscuits, of expensive dairy butter, of sloppy ind