The Little Women Cookbook: Tempting Recipes from the March Sisters and Their Friends and Family

The foreword starts all with all the occasions of food in the Little Women Cookbook.

saleratus then and baking soda

The recipes have the context from the book of whats happening. Not all of the attempts in the original book are successful, which makes it poetic justice that this cookbook fixes them with foolproof recipes.

Celery vase

There's a bill of fare i.e menu for different meals like Picnic and Luncheon party.

Mottoes from the march family. I quite agree with Jo's "Something more than energy and goodwill is necessary to make a cook".

Balzacs omelette