Ice Cream And Cakes

A New Collection of Standard Fresh and Original Receipts for Household and Commercial Use.

By An American 1 Vol,, 12mo, - - Price, $1.50.

Fond as Americans are of Ice-Cream and Ices, there has never been a book giving directions for the preparation of the various forms of iced dainties, some of which are quite unknown in this country, or are only procurable from the best confectioners of our large cities. This book contains the fruit of many years' experience and experiment, together with a description of the processes followed by the great French and Italian confectioners.

More than a hundred different receipts for Ice-Creams and Water Ices are given, with rules for preparing all the various flavorings. The directions are both minute and systematic, and being the production of a person of education and refinement, specially qualified for the task, the work will be found to be thoroughly accurate and complete in all points. Any capable housewife, with the resources of a well-equipped kitchen, will be able to follow the directions given, without difficulty and with certainty of succcess.

Extreme care has been taken to avoid ambiguity and looseness of statement, the exact amount of an ingredient is always stated, so that the most inexperienced cannot go astray. The various utensils necessary are described, and full advice given as to their use.

Following this section is a collection of receipts for Cake, embracing several hundred different sorts, many of them new and original, and all carefully tested ,and of prime excellence. Some of these receipts have hitherto been the property of individuals by whom they were sold singly at a high price. The book, as a whole, contains a greater number of original and choice receipts for ice-cream and cakes than any other in existence. It will be found indispensable wherever choice and dainty cookery is appreciated.

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Woman's Handiwork

In Modern Homes.

By Constance Cary Harrison.

One Volume, 8vo, Richly Bound in Illuminated Cloth, with numerous Illustrations and Five Colored Plates from designs by Samuel Colman, Rosina

Emmet, Geokge Gibson, and others.

Price, $2.00.

Mrs. Harrison's book combines a discussion of the principles of design and decoration, practical chapters on embroidery, painting on silk and china, etc., with most helpful hints as to the domestic manufacture of many objects of use and beauty in house-furnishing, and also suggestions for the arrangement and decoration of rooms in the details of screens, portieres, the mantel-piece, etc.

Critical Notices.

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The House Beautiful. By Clarence Cook.

Over One Hundred Illustrations From Original Drawings By Francis Lathrop, Miss Maria R. Oakey, A. Sandier, J. S. Inglis, And Others ; Engraved By Henry Marsh, F. S. King, And Others.

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