Note: This edition of Landmarks Club Cook Book has been updated to include Metric equivalents.
Californians come from everywhere. Every State—nearly every county—in the Union is represented here. While a few other cities are as “cosmopolitan” as Los Angeles, no other city in the world is made up of so many intelligent and well-to-do people so far from their old homes and from homes so widely scattered. Perhaps in proportion to population there is no other city in whose households are in vogue so many varieties of cookery from so many lands and localities. It is therefore a place where housewives may have a most cosmopolitan comparing of notes. Without going outside their own ward or their own “social set,” they may exchange recipes for English puddings, New England pies, French sautés, Italian pastes, Swiss Hassenpfeffer, Virginia corn pone, Mexican chocolate—in fine, the dishes of every land, and from typical housekeepers thereof.
Taking a hint from this fact, a committee of ladies connected with the Landmarks Club (Mrs. J. G. Mossin and Mrs. George H. Wadleigh) have compiled the following book from the best personal sources; and it is offered to the public in the belief that it will be of real worth to housekeepers, not only in California but elsewhere.
The chapter of recipes for the most famous dishes of old-time California, Mexico and Spanish America in general, is believed to be the only reliable collection of the sort available.
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