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This book was written long ago when safetystandards were much more fluid. Please do NOT try these at home, oranywhere else.
The reader is likely to be confused by the chapter numbering.In the original book, the Table of Contents listed the Forewordand Introduction as Chapter I, but in the text itself theForeward and Introduction has no chapter number, and chapternumbering begins with What is Paper Bag Cookery? (ChapterII in the Table of Contents but Chapter I in the text). Theconfusion gets worse, because TWO chapters (Pastry and ShortCakes) are numbered Chapter XXI in the text! After that thenumbers of the remaining chapters differ from the Table ofContents by two.