Susanna Shanklin Browne, The Plain Sailing Cook Book — Preface (1922)
“ In preparing and arranging each recipe, I have tried to keep continually in mind the person who has never before cooked anything, and who is as entirely dependent upon not only what I tell, but how I tell it, as one would be in attempting to concoct a chemical formula upon one's first visit to a laboratory. ”
Susanna Shanklin Browne, The Plain Sailing Cook Book — Preface (1922)
“ So far as I am aware, no cook book of all the multitude now in use is successfully adapted to the needs of the person who has never before attempted to cook. It is not merely that most of the standard cook books take for granted more or less actual experience over the kitchen table and range; even those whose special appeal is to the novice and beginner usually fail in their purpose because the persons who write them, however versed in the lore of cookery, have little or insufficient skill in simple, concise, unequivocal expression. ”
Susanna Shanklin Browne, The Plain Sailing Cook Book — Preface (1922)
“ A glance through these pages will show that they are confined to the simpler every-day dishes that make up the staple menu of the average American family. In cookery, as in other things, one should begin at the beginning and serve one's apprenticeship before passing on to the more complex mysteries of the craft. ”
