Desserts and Salads
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Editor's review
Who it's for
A good fit for
- Readers interested in old cookbooks and food culture
- People who like desserts and salads and are willing to try making them
- Researchers collecting public-domain household and cooking materials
- Readers who want to see how early English-language recipes were written
Not a good fit for
- Beginners who need modern units of measurement and step-by-step illustrations
- Readers looking for nutritional analysis or health advice
- People who read only Chinese recipes and are uncomfortable with English phrasing
Reading tips
- Browse the table of contents first, pick the dessert or salad categories that interest you, then read closely.
- When you encounter old-fashioned measures and terms, take notes as you read and compare them with modern conversions.
- Optionally try one or two recipes and record how they differ from today's methods.
- Read it as a culinary document; there is no need to go from start to finish in order.
About the publisher
Project Gutenberg is a digital publishing project focused on public-domain ebooks. Its publishing direction centers on classic literary works whose copyright has expired, covering genres such as poetry, drama, fiction, and epic. Representative books include Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, Proust's Du côté de chez Swann, Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Homer's The Iliad, Dante's La Divina Comèdia: Purgatòri, Cervantes's The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Its author resources consist mainly of classic Western writers such as Wordsworth, Proust, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Grahame, and Tolstoy. Its publishing feature is the provision of freely accessible ebooks in EPUB and Kindle formats; it is not a traditional publisher, and publicly available information is limited.
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About the author
Gesine Lemcke (1841–1904) was a German-American cooking teacher and cookbook author. Born in Germany, she later moved to the United States, where she ran a cooking school in New York and worked as an instructor and writer. Her representative work, Desserts and Salads, collects recipes for sweets and salads aimed at the practical needs of home kitchens and classroom teaching, reflecting the late nineteenth-century American cooking-school emphasis on practical technique and clear instructions. Only one of her works is held in this collection, and public information on her early life, education, and training is limited. Judging from the available material, her writing is marked by accessible ingredients and explicit methods, serving ordinary readers in everyday cooking and reflecting the era's efforts to spread domestic skills and standardize recipes.
