Your First Hundred Meals
by .Scribner’s, $2.75.
Here is a cookbook for beginners which, unlike most, does not assume you know how to cook. Mrs. Welch assumes nothing beyond ability to light the gas, and the certainty that a novice, if in doubt, will do the wrong thing. Her book deals not in recipes but in complete meals, each described on a separate page, with instructions on how to select foods, what quantities to buy, what pots and pans to use.
A minute-by-minute schedule explains each step in the cooking without use of cookbook terms bewildering to the uninitiated. The various steps in the preparation of the entree are dovetailed with the preparation of the vegetables, salad, dessert, and with such chores as laying the table, warming the plates, making coffee. A time is set aside for a cocktail while the dinner is looking after itself. Narrow-page inserts make it possible to choose three different vegetableand-salad combinations for each main course.