N. B. It was a tough decision to place this book to the "Cookbook" or "Humor" catagory. The former was selected.
-The Publishers

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The Perry
HOME COOK
Book

"The way to a man's heart is through his stomach"

A Carefully Compiled Book of
Tested and Approved Recipes

By the Ladies of Perry, Kansas, and Vicinity
1920

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PREFACE

WE wish to thank our friends for their generosity in supplying hundreds of recipes with which this book is filled.

The business public has been courteous and generous to us in the way of advertising and our friends and benefactors in donations, for all of which we are sincerely grateful.

THE LADIES OF PERRY AND VICINITY

SMILE

SMILE - - Every time you get the chance - it's the chance smile that wins.
SMILE - - If you're thin, laugh if you're fat and if you're neither, just grin
SMILE - - At hard luck the fates might think you like it and quit.
SMILE - - And never let the sun set on your troubles; set on them yourself.
SMILE - - At the past and you can grin at the future.
SMILE - - While you're awake and you'll laugh in your sleep.
SMILE - - When you fail and you'll die laughing in success.
SMILE - - At a dime and, it will look like a dollar.
SMILE - - If it kills you and you'll die with a grin on your face.
SMILE - - Every time you think of it and you'll soon get the habit.
--D. F. O'REILLY.

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

PREFACE
I. COCKTAILS
II. SOUPS
III. FISH
IV. MEATS
V. VEGETABLES
VI. FRITTERS
VII. SALADS
VIII. EGGS AND OMELETS
IX. CHEESE DISHES
X. BREAD AND YEAST
XI. SANDWICHES
XII. CAKES
XIII. CAKE FILLINGS AND ICINGS
XIV. COOKIES AND DOUGHNUTS
XV. PUDDING AND DESSERTS
XVI. PASTRY
XVII. FROZEN DISHES
XVIII. CANDIES
XIX. PRESERVES AND JELLIES
XX. PICKLES AND RELISHES
XXI. BEVERAGES
XXII. CANNING
XXIII. COOKING FOR INVALIDS
XXIV. MISCELLANEOUS
XXV. HELPFUL HINTS
XXVI. FORMAL AND INFORMAL DINNERS
DONORS