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Salads, Sandwiches and Chafing-Dish Dainties by Janet McKenzie Hill (1852 - 1933).

This project is now complete! All audio files can now be found on the catalog page for this project http://librivox.org/salads-sandwiches-and-chafing-dish-dainties-by-janet-mckenzie-hill/
There is positive need of more widespread knowledge of the principles of cookery. Few women know how to cook an egg or boil a potato properly, and the making of the perfect loaf of bread has long been assigned a place among the "lost arts."

By many women cooking is considered, at best, a homely art,—a necessary kind of drudgery; and the composition, if not the consumption, of salads and chafing-dish productions has been restricted, hitherto, chiefly to that half of the race "who cook to please themselves." But, since women have become anxious to compete with men in any and every walk of life, they, too, are desirous of becoming adepts in tossing up an appetizing salad or in stirring a creamy rarebit. And yet neither a pleasing salad, especially if it is to be composed of cooked materials, nor a tempting rarebit can be evolved, save by happy accident, without an accurate knowledge of the fundamental principles that underlie all cookery. ( the Preface)
    1. How to claim a part, and "how it all works" here To find a section to record, simply look at point 5. below at the sections. All the ones without names beside them are "up for grabs." Click "Post reply" at the top left of the screen and tell us which section you would like to read (include the section number from the left-most column in the reader list, please). Read points 6. to 8. below for what to do before, during and after your recording.
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Post by Carolin »

this is ready to go :D

all readers and a dpl are most welcome!
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Post by BettyB »

yea. Another cookery book from Carolin :clap:
I would like to start with 4, 10, 13-15 and 17.
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Post by Carolin »

great, thank you betty!
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Post by JulenaG »

I'd like to DPL this book of possible. :)
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Post by Carolin »

Thats great, welcome to this project :thumbs:
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Post by silverquill »

For some reason I find these kind of fun. Could I take 1 and 22?
~ Larry
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Post by Carolin »

because they are fun! :D

thank you for claiming!
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Post by Kalynda »

May I have 20 please?
Il faut cultiver nos jardins.
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Post by kanzakisol »

Hi Carolin!

I'll take 2 and 3. I also have a question about handling the text below a picture, should it generally be read?
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Post by Carolin »

thank you both!

image captions need not be read, we leave out the images so the captions make no sense in an audiobook :) just ignore them, thank you!
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Post by Carolin »

Thank you betty!
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Post by JulenaG »

Section 4, PL OK. Yum.
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Post by Carolin »

Thank you :thumbs:
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