The Kansas Home Cookbook

In every department of home life great attention is now given to internal decoration, and the dining room received its full share of thought and study. Fortunately, beautiful and charming table-adornments are now within the reach of persons of very moderate means. Upon the shelves of our china stores may be found handsome imitations of highly colored costly ware, from which a few selections, interspersed among the pure white china, will greatly enliven the general effect of a table set in the ordinary colorless ware.

The ladies of Leavenworth and other cities and towns in Kansas (1886) have given us their recipes for griddle cakes (p. 78), soups (p. 86), fish (p.93), Oysters (p. 98), salads and sauces (p. 140), economy dishes (p. 161), puddings (p. 231), confectionery (p. 265) and many more.