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- The Master Chefs of King Richard II, The Forme of Cury (1390) [full text]
The Invention of Eggs was merely accidental, two or three of which having casually roll’d from off a Shelf into a Pudding which a good Wife was making, she found herself under a Necessity either of throwing away her Pudding, or letting the Eggs remain, but concluding from the innocent Quality of the Eggs, that they would do no Hurt, if they did no Good. She wisely jumbl’d ’em all together, after having carefully pick’d out the Shells; the Consequence is easily imagined, the Pudding became a Pudding of Puddings; and the Use of Eggs from thence took its Date.
- Anonymous, A Learned Dissertation on Dumpling (1726) [full text]
In spite of its cost, candy is now classed by many with the necessities rather than with the luxuries.
- Mary Green, Better Meals for Less Money (1917) [full text]
Do not serve greasy soups.
- Mary Green, Better Meals for Less Money (1917) [full text]
![AMERICAN TOAST.
To one egg thoroughly beaten, put one cup of sweet milk and a little salt. Slice light bread and dip into the mixture, allowing each slice to absorb some of the milk; then brown on a hot buttered griddle or thick-bottomed frying pan; spread with butter and serve hot.
- Mrs F.L. Gillette (Fanny Lemira) and Hugo Ziemann, Steward of the White House, The White House Cookbook, A Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home (1887) [full text]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l4vp5gfu0z1qamjklo1_500.jpg)
AMERICAN TOAST.
To one egg thoroughly beaten, put one cup of sweet milk and a little salt. Slice light bread and dip into the mixture, allowing each slice to absorb some of the milk; then brown on a hot buttered griddle or thick-bottomed frying pan; spread with butter and serve hot.
- Mrs F.L. Gillette (Fanny Lemira) and Hugo Ziemann, Steward of the White House, The White House Cookbook, A Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home (1887) [full text]
Europeans eat even larger amounts of wheat than we. Over half the food of the French is bread, so if the wheat shortage were near the danger-line, it might lead to a serious weakening of the marvellous courage of the French people.
- Katharine Blunt, Frances L. Swain, and Florence Powdermaker, Food Guide for War Service at Home (1918) [full text]
![To meet all this great food need in Europe—and meeting it is an imperative military necessity—we must be very careful and economical in our food use here at home. We must eat less; we must waste nothing; we must equalize the distribution of what food we may retain for ourselves; we must prevent extortion and profiteering which make prices so high that the poor cannot buy the food they actually need; and we must try to produce more food by planting more wheat and other grain, raising more cattle and swine and sheep, and making gardens everywhere.
- Herbert Hoover (United States Food Administrator), preface to Katharine Blunt’s Food Guide for War Service at Home (1918) [full text]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l4q9vgftWS1qamjklo1_500.png)
To meet all this great food need in Europe—and meeting it is an imperative military necessity—we must be very careful and economical in our food use here at home. We must eat less; we must waste nothing; we must equalize the distribution of what food we may retain for ourselves; we must prevent extortion and profiteering which make prices so high that the poor cannot buy the food they actually need; and we must try to produce more food by planting more wheat and other grain, raising more cattle and swine and sheep, and making gardens everywhere.
- Herbert Hoover (United States Food Administrator), preface to Katharine Blunt’s Food Guide for War Service at Home (1918) [full text]
She thought a chili was something cool, as its name imported, and was served with some. “How fresh and green they look,” she said, and put one into her mouth. It was hotter than the curry; flesh and blood could bear it no longer. She laid down her fork. “Water, for Heaven’s sake, water!” she cried. Mr. Sedley burst out laughing (he was a coarse man, from the Stock Exchange, where they love all sorts of practical jokes).
- William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair (1847-8) [full text]
However, this bottle was not marked “poison,” so Alice ventured to taste it, and finding it very nice (it had, in fact, a sort of mixed flavour of cherry-tart, custard, pineapple, roast turkey, coffee, and hot buttered toast,) she very soon finished it off.
- Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) [full text]
In the room on the left a long supper-table was seen, set forth with great pitchers of new milk, piles of brown and white bread, and perfect stacks of the shiny gingerbread so dear to boyish souls. A flavor of toast was in the air, also suggestions of baked apples, very tantalizing to one hungry little nose and stomach.
- Louisa May Alcott, Little Men (1871) [full text]
