THE
WHITE HOUSE COOK BOOK
A COMPREHENSIVE CYCLOPEDIA OF INFORMATION FOR THE HOME
CONTAINING COOKING, TOILET AND HOUSEHOLD RECIPES. MENUS. DINNER-GIVING TABLE ETIQUETTE.
CARE OF THE SICK. HEALTH SUGGESTIONS, FACTS WORTH KNOWING. ETC
BY
HUGO ZIEMANN (STEWARD OF THE WHITE HOUSE) AND MRS. F. L. GILLETTE
HELEN AXSON WILSON
TO THE
WIVES OF OUR PRESIDENTS,
THOSE NOBLE WOMEN WHO HAVE GRACED THE
WHITE HOUSE,AND WHOSE NAMES AND MEMORIES ARE
DEAR TO ALL AMERICANS.
THIS VOLUME
IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED
BY THE AUTHOR.
PUBLISHERS' PREFACE
IN
presenting to
the public the "WHITE HOUSE COOK BOOK," the publishers believe they
can justly claim that it more fully represents the progress and present
perfection of the culinary art than any previous work. In point of
authorship,
it stands preeminent. Hugo Ziemann was at one time caterer for that
Prince
Napoleon who was killed while fighting the Zulus in Africa. He was
afterwards
steward of the famous Hotel Splendide in Paris. Later he conducted the
celebrated Brunswick Cafe in New York, and still later he gave to the
Hotel
Richelieu, in Chicago, a cuisine which won the applause of even the
gourmets of
foreign lands. It was here that he laid the famous "spread" to which
the chiefs of the warring factions of the Republican Convention sat
down in
June, 1888, and from which they arose with asperities softened,
differences
harmonized and victory organized.
Mrs. F. L.
Gillette is no less proficient and capable, having made a life-long and
thorough study of cookery and housekeeping, especially as adapted to
the
practical wants of average American homes.
The book has
been prepared with great care. Every recipe has been tried
and tested,
and can be relied upon as one of the best of its
kind. It is
comprehensive, filling completely, it is believed, the requirements of
housekeepers of all classes. It embodies several original and
commendable
features, among which may be mentioned the menus
for the holidays and
for one week in each month in the year, thus covering all varieties of
seasonable foods; the convenient classification and arrangement of
topics; the
simplified method of explanation in preparing an article, in the order
of
manipulation, thereby enabling the most inexperienced to clearly
comprehend it.
The subject of
carving has been given a prominent place, not only because of its
special
importance in a work of this kind, but particularly because it contains
entirely new and original designs, and is so far a departure from the
usual
mode of treating the subject.
Interesting
information is given concerning the White House;
how its hospitality is
conducted, the menus served on special occasions, views of the
interior,
portraits of all the ladies of the White House, etc.
Convenience has
been studied in the make-up of the book. The type is large and plain;
it is
sewed by patent flexible process, so that when opened it will not close
of
itself, and it is bound in enameled cloth, adapted for use in the
kitchen.
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