Let's Cook It Right

About this book

Lets Cook It Right Good Health Comes from Good Cooking Here is a new kind of cooking guide - for the beginner or the inexperienced cook that shows how to prepare delicious attractive looking foods and apply the principles of good nutrition at the same time. LETS COOK IT RIGHT is therefore not only a complete cookbook it is also a simple manual in the use of foods for maximum health and well-being. LETS COOK IT RIGHT contains 350 basic recipes for preparing every variety of food and over 3 000 variations of them! Thus endless repetition is avoided in the text and greater flexibility allowed the cook who enjoys being creative. All the recipes are simplified and the suggested procedures shortened as much as possible. Miss Davis gives special attention to the preparation of meats and vegetables meats because they are the most expensive items on the food budget because Americans are particularly fond of them and because protein deficiencies are widespread; vegetables because they have been robbed of their nutrients during cooking more than any other food. To help stretch the food dollar Miss Davis makes innumerable suggestions for buying wisely selecting the most potentially nourishing items for the money utilizing left-overs and preparing inexpensive soups and meat substitutes. The reader will learn too how to create desserts which will contribute to health while fulfilling their traditional function in the well planned meal. There are many suggestions for between meal snacks to satisfy the hunger of growing children while at the same time supplying vitamin and calorie requirements so necessary to these years. There are also recipes for candies which will answer harmlessly the childs natural craving for sweets. Miss Davis unique methods of food preparation are nowhere better illustrated than in her chapter on salads one of the most illustrative of dishes. She introduces a number of new but easily obtainable vegetables adds interesting herbs spices and seasonings and mixes the whole in such a way as to produce a salad that is invariably crisp and piquant.